May 31, 2011 Remember USS Liberty and Crew this Memorial Day, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today  On June 8, 1967 the terrorist Jewish state of Israel launched attacks against the U.S.S. Liberty which killed 34 U.S. sailors and Marines. The U.S. government ordered pilots flying American fighter jets that were on their way to rescue their fellow Americans from this vicious attack of Biblical ferocity to return to their carriers and let their fellow American sailors and Marines die. The politicians did this for the benefit of their own political careers... Read more... Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy | Stephen Lendman ...Comfortably at home during hostilities, America's privileged, in fact, let others do their dying for them, making the world safe for bankers, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites, sending innocent youths to conflicts based on lies, duplicitously saying it's for freedom, democracy, and humanitarian concerns... Read more... Cameron drops Israel 'racist' charity | Stop the JNF Campaign Prime Minister David Cameron has quietly terminated his status as an Honorary Patron of the controversial Jewish National Fund (JNF)... For many years leaders of all three main political parties became Honorary Patrons of the JNF by convention..., “Cameron was the only leader of the three major parties remaining as a JNF Patron. This decline in political support for the JNF at the highest levels of the political tree may be a sign of the increasing awareness in official quarters that a robust defence of the activities of the JNF may not be sustainable.”.. Read more... The Holocaust Controversy: The Case for Open Debate, by Bradley Smith | CODOH No subject enrages campus Thought Police more than Holocaust Revisionism. We debate every other great historical issue as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Holocaust story an exception. Elitist dogma manipulated by special interest groups corrupts everything in academia. Students should be encouraged to investigate the Holocaust story the same way they are encouraged to investigate every other historical event. This isn't a radical point of view. The premises for it were worked out centuries ago during a little something called the Enlightenment... Read more... AIPAC 101: What Every American Should Know | YouTube Watch video... Israel's Young Conscientious Objectors: I will NOT kill innocent people for Israel! | YouTube Please support Freedom and Justice for all! These people suffer a lot of persecution just because they decide to become true human being who refuse to kill and occupy another people's land... Watch video... Congress Becomes a Mob of Mindless, Cheering Sycophants | Wallwritings  Scenes like the one above evoked veteran Jewish activist Uri Avnery to write this harsh description in his weekly Israeli-based column, Gush-Shalom: "It was all rather disgusting." No one has said it better, nor with greater passion. It was, most certainly, as Avnery described in painful detail, a disgusting exhibition of congressional subservience to the leader of a foreign power... Read more... Netanyahu's speech to Congress shows America will buy anything, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The man who explicitly said he would do his level best to destroy the Oslo Accords suddenly says he's in favor of peace with the Palestinians... Read more... Revolt: US could have full-employment, but chooses our misery, decay, death, by Carl Herman | Examiner Americans could have full-employment if government created money, and employed anyone interested for infrastructure improvement (hard and soft)... Because what US “leadership” does rather than these easy solutions are criminal acts that every year kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions of our dollars, I advocate for revolution... [I wish there were a better option, but I don't see one looming on the horizon.] Read more...Palestinian Women Prisoners | YouTube Watch video... Barack Obama is the wrong target | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that rather than attack President Obama for his failure in the Middle East, supporters of justice for the Palestinians should “target ... America’s pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders...” thereby surrendering US policy-making to Israel’s lobbies in Congress and elsewhere... Read more... The Secret Wars of the Saudi-Israeli Alliance, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research The ties of the Al-Sauds to Tel Aviv have in recent years become increasingly visible and pervasive. This secret Israeli-Saudi alliance exists within the context of a broader Khaliji-Israeli alliance. The alliance with Israel is formed through strategic cooperation between the ruling families of Saudi Arabia and the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf. Together Israel and the Khaliji ruling families form a frontline for Washington and NATO against Iran and its regional allies. The alliance also acts on behalf of Washington to destabilize the region. The roots of chaos in Southwest Asia and North Africa are this Khaliji-Israeli alliance... Read more... May 30, 2011 Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel's "War Crimes", by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine  Jewish American, Rae Abileah, disrupted Netanyahu speech at a joint session of Congress, Under International Law and America’s War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are “complicitors” in Israel’s long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; and as such are “war criminals” themselves...shouting “STOP ISRAELI WAR CRIMES!” Read more... ''The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century'', by Prof. Arthur Butz We have known about it for some time. But we didn't want to give it any publicity and help the sales. Now it's too late; it's out in the open and we have to face it squarely. First published in 1976, this slightly revised and enhanced edition of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century is the seminal work of "Holocaust" revisionism and still the most widely read on the subject...- Abbot A. Rosen, Chicago Executive Director, ADL, Pittsburgh Press, Jan. 26, 1977 Read the book... (.pdf - 12MB) Dissent and Compromise, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine President Barak Obama is the great compromiser. For Obama, barter is so essential that he’s willing to sacrifice his integrity for compromise. Obama is guided by beliefs like those of Israeli professor/writer Amos Oz:.. Read more... A Palestinian in Deutschland, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...More and more Jews are seeing that safety and prosperity do not arise from oppressing others or from replacing the small ghettos in Europe with the large ghetto called the “Jewish state”. Germans had learned the lesson that repression and oppression of others does not work long term. Other people have learned this lesson. Zionists will invariably have to internalize this lesson just like many anti-Zionist Jews have internalized it. Only then will these Jews rise “out of the ashes” (the title of a great book by Jewish Theologian Marc Ellis)... Read more... American soldiers are waking up! | YouTube Listen to and SUPPORT those American Veterans that are now AWAKE and MAD AS HELL!!.. Watch video... 63 Years of Nakba | YouTube ...As these days mark the 63rd memory of the Nakba, our people all around the world, revolt, and object to the injustice and hatred we are met with on a day to day basis, just because we're Palestinians and just because we exist... Read more, watch video... Zionists Won't Let You See This On Your TV | YouTube ...here is the truth behind the middle east conflict... ask yourself: Why aren't Americans shown these honest facts on any of the over 1,700 major media outlets?.. Read more, watch video... Obama Pledges to Continue War Against Libya During Globalist Confab, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Appearing at the globalist confab in the French resort of Deauville, Obama said on Friday the U.S. and NATO will not rest until they “finish the job’ in Libya. Obama’s ping pong partner, British PM David Cameron, said it is time to “ratchet up” pressure on Gaddafi. In other words, Cameron called for more NATO bombing and more death in order to convince Gaddafi to leave the country as the globalists demand... Read more, watch videos... Donor bread and congressional circuses: US Congress mesmerized by Netanyahu's "lies and illusions" | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the “sustained standing ovations” given to Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu at the US Congress on 24 May. He argues that Congress's "accepted version of reality is maintained by Zionist misinformation fortified by donor dollars to the campaigns of both parties" and that in US politics "it is the money that conditions the mind to an uncritical acceptance of a perverted reality".. Read more... May 29, 2011 Is the Arab Spring spreading to US Congressional staffs? by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  Read more... The Establishment Eliminates A Threat, by Paul Craig Roberts | Foreign Policy Journal The police and the prostitute media have made it impossible for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get a fair trial. From the moment of the announcement that he had been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and before he was ever indicted, the accounts given by the police were designed to create the impression that the director of the International Monetary Fund was guilty... Read more... Russian politics: Nostalgia or a new political direction? by Eric Walberg | International News As Russia gears up for its election season this winter, Putin’s Popular Front and Rogozin’s nationalist front are playing an old Soviet melody and even borrowing a tune from revolutionaries in Cairo. Eric Walberg recognises the refrain... Read more... Compromise and dissent: the modi operandi of Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that, faced with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s absolutism, US President Barack Obama’s natural tendency to compromise is untenable and renders him weak and ineffectual... Read more... Female Israeli soldiers talk about their power and the abuse of it | YouTube Two female Israeli soldiers talk about their experiences. Reports are altered, to prevent internal investigation... Watch video... Wiki Jews: Israel, Palestine dig digital trenches | YouTube The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached an unlikely new field of battle, where there are no borders and no generals calling the shots. The battle is raging all over the Internet, where everybody can post their point of view on the events in the Middle East... Read more... Arab Spring of Bloody Freedom, by Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. | Opinion Maker  With the failing of international institutions responsible for saving the humanity from the scourge of wars and maintenance of peace and security, global politics is fast becoming a puppet show for fantasy and amusement. Politicians with borrowed public funds, time and interests ruling the societies act like sadistic maniacs... Read more... Rense & Celente: People Don't Want To Know | YouTube Gerald Celente - Trends forecaster - says Americans are now burying their heads in the sand - They don't want to know... Watch video... Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members, by Cynthia McKinney | Dissident Voice ...I watched Cindy Sheehan as she bared her soul before us in her grief; I cried when Cindy cried. Now, how must Qaddafi and his wife feel? And the people of Libya, parents of all the nation’s children gone too soon. I don’t even want to imagine... Read more... US: Friend or Foe, by Huma Hashmi-Hanley | Opinion Maker As the Chinese proverb goes…” May you live in interesting times…” Well, it couldn’t get more interesting here in Pakistan... Read more... Gates: 'Iraq needs US forces to defend ME from Iran' | Rehmat's World On May 24, 2011 the outgoing US Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, addressed the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a neocon think tank headed by radical Jew Arthur C. Brooks with Islamophobe members such as John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Novak and Ayaan Hirsi ali to name a few... Read more... Texans Revolt Against TSA Tyranny, Storm Capitol | YouTube Exclusive footage of the Texas Capitol takeover Wednesday, when angry demonstrators led by radio host Alex Jones descended upon the Senate to rebuke threats used to quash a TSA bill that passed the House unanimously and was poised to clear the Senate with 30 of 31 senators supporting... Read more, watch video... Gulf State Gendarmes: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf, by Rick Rozoff | Voltaire Network While Barack Obama and David Cameron vow to support the "Arab Springs", their armies are bombarding Libya. But they needn’t have any qualms about it; most of the dirty work has been farmed out to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a new Holy Alliance of Arab monarchies which stands against democracy, revolution and secularism... Read more... Obama Signs PATRIOT Act Extension, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  On Thursday, Congress passed a four year extension of the PATRIOT Act. Lawmakers rejected all attempts to moderate aspects of the legislation that weaken the Fourth Amendment... Read more... Netanyahu on American History, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer I stumbled on Sean Hannity interviewing Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in the immediate aftermath of his triumphal speech to both houses of of our slavish Congress. (Around 30 standing ovations.) As expected, it was the softest of softball interviews, Hannity doubtless gloating at the possibility of Republican gain by fawning over the Israelis while the Obama administration has to deal with the rest of the world and therefore must at least give a show of impartiality... Read more, watch video... Washington's War on Chavez | Stephen Lendman ...Ignoring America's appalling human rights record, on April 11, the State Department issued its 2010 Human Rights Report: Venezuela, claiming Chavez government responsibility for largely uncorroborated, exaggerated or falsified abuses, including:.. Read more... 'West allows bank greed to rule' | PressTV Banks in the West shower record bonuses on their executives for 'bringing about the world financial crisis' while the privileged bankers offload the debt responsibility on people. Press TV has interviewed Ian Williams, a senior analyst of Foreign Policy in Focus in New York, who says governments could stop the banks by taking ownership of the banks they bailed out with tax payer money... Read more, watch video... Democratic Dawn - or Darkness? by Pat Buchanan | Creators "Right now, socially, we are disintegrating." So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of Egypt. Indeed, post-revolutionary Egypt appears to be coming apart... Read more... Another Zionist Attack on Academic Freedom, by Daniel McGowan | Dissident Voice ...Calling Holocaust historical revisionism “Holocaust denial” is unnecessarily pejorative. It might be fine for Fox News, but it is not conducive to academic discourse. To call Holocaust revisionism “thinly veiled anti-Semitism” is simply untrue and it demeans scholars and others, including Jews, who question the Holocaust doctrine as we are fed it in hundreds of films, books, articles, and commentaries... Read more... May 28, 2011 Welcome to Gaza: Revolution and Change at the Rafah Border, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite. He wore a black uniform and walked around self-assuredly, as he instructed weary travelers on their next moves before being allowed back into Gaza. On the other side of the border, in Egypt, there was much anxiety, fear and anticipation... Read more... Was Arrest of Top IMF Bankster Part of Planned Sting Operation? by Victor Thorn | AFP Could the high-profile arrest of International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss Kahn (DSK) on sexual assault charges in New York City be part of a struggle between banking cartels at the highest levels?.. Read more... Meir Dagan pulls Zionazi rug Again! | Rehmat's World Early this month, ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who resigned after the January 2010 assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh by Mossad agents (both male and female) in Dubai – had called Israeli idea of attacking Islamic Iran as “absolute stupidity”. Now, Meir Dagan admits that opposition to Palestinian statehood in the form of the upcoming September vote before the General Assembly is a serious error of judgment... Read more... A Martyr Of Love And Political Affiliation | Kawther Salam On May 6 2011, the body of Ayah Al- Baradiyya, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman, English literature student in the third year at Hebron University, a noble-minded and liberated woman, and an activist in the field of democracy, was found dropped in a well on the top of a hill of Surif town. The well is located just three kilometers from Al- Baradiyya’s house... Read more... Obama's political future in AIPAC hands, by Hassan Hanizadeh | PressTV US President Barack Obama's recent speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) not only failed to bring a solution to the Middle East crisis, but also sparked outrage among the region's Muslims nations. The speech did not address the nations in the region, but rather aimed at gaining the Zionist lobby's support in the United States... Read more... Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey, by John Pilger | Information Clearing House When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”... Read more... The Middle East counter-revolution, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network  The Quincy Agreement binds the United States to the Saud family A Saudi clan, the Sudairi, is spearheading the counter-revolutionary tide unleashed by the United States and Israel in the Middle East. In a vast overview, published in serial form by the leading Russian language daily, Thierry Meyssan from Damascus paints a general picture of the contradictions which are convulsing the region...Read more... Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels, by Patrick Martin | WSWS Numerous press reports over the weekend add to the evidence that the Libyan rebels fighting the regime of Muammar Gaddafi are under the direction of American intelligence agencies. Despite the repeated claims by Obama administration officials that the rebels are a largely unknown quantity, it is becoming increasingly clear that key military leaders of the anti-Gaddafi campaign are well known to the US government and have longstanding relations with the CIA... Read more... Venezuela oil chief says US can 'go to hell' | AlterNet The head of Venezuela's state oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) said the "imperialist" United States could "go to hell" after it slapped sanctions on the company over alleged ties to Iran... Read more... Divided and Conquered America: How "Independent" Media Undermines Mass Movements For Meaningful Change, by David DeGraw | Amped Status After much research you realize that there are very few people who know our current system of power well enough to critique it in a meaningful and effective way. There are very few people who are brave and courageous enough to boldly speak their hard-earned truth to power. Once you understand how the powerful function to divide and conquer us, you break free from the groupthink partisanship that is pivotal in preventing any meaningful mass movements for structural change. It is at this point that you learn to appreciate the all-too rare “truth-tellers.”.. Read more... US Has Fourth-Highest Income Inequality Rate in the World, by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | AlterNet A recent report issued by Paris' Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development analyzes the countries around the world with the highest income inequality rate, per capita. And guess where the United States sits? At number four... [That puts the US at the top among the first world countries.] Read more... Turkish parliamentarian: 9/11 wasn't just Mossad - CIA also involved, by Kevin Barrett | Truthjihad Yesterday I blogged about being invited to lunch in the Turkish National Legislature with a Turkish National Police Chief and a leading parliamentarian, and discussing Turkey's triumph (so far) over the false-flag terror plot known as Ergenekon - which would have been Turkey's 9/11 had the plotters succeeded... [It's obvious enough that the Zionists couldn't have pulled it off without considerable cooperation with one or more of the US intelligence agencies.] Read more...Israel Always Needs an Existential Threat to Survive: Interview with Nima Shirazi by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine What follows is the complete text of my interview with Nima Shirazi with whom I discussed a variety of issues including Israeli-American relations, Iran’s nuclear program, the death of Osama Bin Laden and the Western media propaganda against Iran... Read more... Demonstrations in the Arab World: Reason for Introspection, by Jamil Toubbeh ...It is hard to believe that the demonstrations had caught Arab and Western leaders by surprise. The Arab world is not fantasyland; it has been and still is a war zone and a real-life testing ground for Western war technology. Palestinians have been demonstrating against colonial, repressive and apartheid regimes long before my father’s birth 1882. ‘Surprise’ is diplomatic jargon for rocking-the-boat of established relationships between Arab regimes and Western neocolonialists... Read more... May 27, 2011 Obama's AIPAC Speech: A Further Betrayal of the Palestinian People | Richard Falk  Stealing Palestine On Sunday, May 22, 2011, President Barack Obama spoke at an AIPAC Conference, three days after giving his decidedly pro-Israeli speech at the State Department on his broader Middle East foreign policy. It was a shockingly partisan speech to the extremist lobbying group that has the entire U.S. Congress in an unprecedented headlock that has become the envy of even the National Rifle Association...Read more... Netanyahu and the US congressional yo-yos | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views the disgusting spectacle in the US Congress, where America’s elected representatives fawned and applauded at Binyamin Netanyahu’s pledge to deny Palestinians their inalienable tights, and argues that the only option now left is “recognition of the State of Palestine by the United Nations coupled with non-violent mass action by the Palestinian people against the occupation”... [Being a buddhist, I am firmly against violence in almost all circumstances. However,there are exceptions and it seems clear to me that 95% of the members of the House and the Senate should be arrested, tried and convicted for high treason, and hung by the neck until dead.] Read more... Feeling the Ignorance at AIPAC 2011 | YouTube Max Blumenthal interviews delegates outside AIPAC's 2011 conference in Washington. Later, the delegates confront Palestine solidarity protesters... Watch video... BDS explained: Did You Know? | Australians for Palestine This video is created by Australians for Palestine and Women for Palestine as an educational tool to help people gain a better understanding of the clear principles underpinning the Palestinian BDS call and the global Palestinian BDS movement... Watch video... 'Israel seeks to invade West Bank' | PressTV Israel seeks to delegitimize the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its unity deal with Hamas in an attempt to prepare the ground to invade and occupy the West Bank, a political activist says. “Israel is already making plans to utilize this (PA-Hamas unity deal) in order to delegitimize the PA and all it is going to take to that point is some sort of false-flag attack,” Mark Glenn with Crescent & Cross Solidarity Movement told Press TV... Read more, watch video... Former Mossad chief supports Palestinian UN bid | Maan News Agency Former Mossad Director Meir Dagan came out against Israel's prime minister on Tuesday, in a speech saying he was against blocking a Palestinian move to bring the issue of statehood to the UN... [Like a few other former and current members of the Israeli Intelligence apparatus, Dagan is at least somewhat in touch with reality. The collaborationist Fatah bid for a Palestinian State chance offers the last chance for the survival of the Jewish State.] Read more... Ass-Backwards in the Middle East, by Ira Chernus | TomDispatch ...The influential Israeli columnist Sever Plocker pointed to the heart of the matter: the American president has “unequivocally adopted the essence of the Israeli-Zionist narrative.” Plocker might have said the same about all top American political leaders and the U.S. media as well. The American conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dominated by the story that most Israelis tell... Read more... Obama Speaks, Netanyahu Slaps, Obama Wimps And Retracts, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine  [Without the unflagging support of the Americans ever since at least the 1930's, Israel would never been born, let alone flourished. When that support falters, Israel will disappear like the fog when the sun comes out.] Read more...A Warning From The Past | Gilad Atzmon Netanyahu's successful speech before the American joint houses was an extravaganza of Jewish power: there can be little doubt that as far as American elected politicians are concerned, Benjamin Netanyahu actually appears to be far more popular than even the American president himself... Read more... 4th and last part of the interview with Rinaldo Francesca dealing with issues to do with Freedom of expression, KKK vs IDF, deniers vs historians, temporality, ethics and more... Watch video... Rae Abileah Speaks Out Against AIPAC Members Who Attacked Her: Interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now | YouTube The protester who heckled Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his speech to a joint session of the US Congress was arrested by police for "disrupting Congress," a press release from the group Move Over AIPAC said. Rae Abileah was taken to the hospital by Capital Police after reportedly being "assaulted and tackled" in the House Gallery by persons described by CODEPINK as "AIPAC members.".. Watch video... Netanyahu Spurns Peace | Stephen Lendman Calling for Palestinian capitulation, not peace and liberation, Netanyahu delivered a litany of lies, fabrications, misstatements, and half-truths to AIPAC members on May 23, saying:.. Read more... Egypt to open Rafah border permanently | Al Jazeera English  There have been several attempts, some successful, to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing starting from Saturday, the country's official news agency reported, easing a four-year blockade on the Gaza Strip. The news agency MENA said on Wednesday that Egypt's new military rulers had set the date for the opening of the crossing as part of efforts "to end the status of the Palestinian division and achieve national reconciliation"..Read more... The Book of Netanyahu, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar On the First Day Lord Netanyahu met with his faithful counselor Count Avigdor. Avigdor said, "O Lord Netanyahu, you must go even unto the land of the Obamaites to deal with their King. The Obamaites have rendered unto us their gold and precious goods in great abundance but now their King is seeking to treat with our enemies." Then Netanyahu spoke and his heart was full of anger. "Yea verily, we must smite them and also their wives and children and all that they hold dear. For even as we have smitten the children of Canaan we will strike them... Read more... America's suicidal war with Pakistan | Rehmat's World ...In the face of the coming military confrontation – China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against China. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation... [Rehmat's English is a little shaky - no big deal, as his is an original and informative voice, but you've gotta love this one, "..as a punitive measure for its providing heaven to Osama Bin Laden."] Read more...Dispatch From Tripoli: NATO's Feast of Blood, by Cynthia McKinney | Counterpunch While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union's survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian, and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid... Read more... Powerful Bi-Partisan Caucus Prepares to Fight TSA, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars ...The DOJ and Homeland Security intimidated lawmakers into dropping the bill after they threatened to shut down all the airports in Texas and prevent any commercial flights from operating out of or entering the state, a brazenly tyrannical tactic that proves the federal government is acting more like a mafia criminal enterprise than a body that is supposed to represent the interests of the American people... Read more, watch video... “Blackwater is the modern version of mercenaries that have been used by corrupt governments and regimes throughout history,” American investigative journalist Alex Jones said during an interview with Press TV's US Desk... Read more, watch video... Once NATO enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, now NATO allies in Libya, by Webster G. Tarpley | Voltaire Network Drawing on the West Point Military Academy’s analysis of records seized in the Islamic Emirate of Iraq, U.S. historian and journalist Webster G. Tarpley demonstrates that the Libyan National Transitional Council is largely made up of elements affiliated with Al-Qaeda. In the context of a vast reorganization of its secret operations, the United States is enlisting in Libya - and in Syria - the jihadists that it is tracking down in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Bin Laden is dead! Long live the Bin Ladenists", cynics in Washington could well be proclaiming... Read more... Consolidating US Money Power: The Four Horsemen of Global Banking, by Dean Henderson  Read more... Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State, by Francis A. Boyle | Dissident Voice ...Netanyahu’s racist ultimatum would lead to the denationalization of the 1.5 million Palestinians who are already less than third-class citizens of Israel and set the stage for their mass expulsion to the Palestinian Bantustan envisioned by Netanyahu as the “final solution” to Zionism’s “demographic problem” created by the very existence of the Palestinians... Read more... There's a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says, by Spencer Ackerman | Wired You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know... Read more... The Anglo-American Military Axis: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research The standard-bearers of Anglo-American imperialism in the current epoch, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron, met in London on May 25 to discuss the world's two ongoing wars of aggression, those in Afghanistan and Libya, both under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dominated by Washington and London. As well as joining a barbecue for American and British troops in the prime minister's haunts, in the gardens of Number 10 Downing Street, the two potentates called for continuing to bomb Libya back to the Paleolithic Age... Read more... John Mearsheimer on Obama versus Netanyahu, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer This is a short interview of John Mearsheimer commenting on the recent U.S.-Israel flap. His points are familiar, but it’s great to see his brutally frank comments on the power of the Israel Lobby in suppressing discussion of the issues and on spineless American politicians who fail to protect U.S. national interests... Read more, watch video... The International Criminal Court: a help or a hindrance? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the built-in anomalies that allow the International Criminal Court to dispense justice but only selectively by giving impunity to non-signatories such as Israel and the US while prosecuting suspected war criminals from other non-signatories such as Sudan... Read more... May 26, 2011 Unforgettable Words From An Israeli General's Son | YouTube  ..Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state - the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state... Obama's Hypocrisy: Insulting Our Intelligence, by Joe Catron | Palestine Chronicle Barack Obama wants it both ways. Like every United States president since Bill Clinton, who partially brokered the now-defunct Oslo Accords in 1993, he aspires to act as a trusted intermediary in the 63-year old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, while simultaneously pandering to America’s massive pro-Israel lobby. These clashing goals have spurred him to propose an array of conflicting claims and positions that, aside from being fundamentally incompatible, are often simply painful to observe... Read more... America's Coming Nakba, by William A. Cook | Palestine Chronicle 'From the moment we took on a role that included the permanent military domination of the world, we were on our own—feared, hated, corrupt and corrupting, maintaining 'order' through state terrorism and bribery, and given to megalomanic rhetoric and sophistries that virtually invited the rest of the world to unite against us. We had mounted the Napoleonic tiger. The question was, would we—and could we—ever dismount?' – (Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire) Read more... The Libyan war and American democracy, by Patrick Martin | WSWS The Obama administration has allowed a 60-day legal deadline for obtaining congressional approval for the US war against Libya to expire without taking any action. The deadline passed on Friday, May 20, with barely any notice taken in the American media or in official political circles... Read more... AIPAC Zionists: the Archenemy of the American Nation, by Sartre Batr | Veterans Today The habitual pilgrimage to kiss the ring of the “Khazar conspiracy” is upon us once again. The late great and trustworthy friend Alan Stang sheds light on the political movement called Zionism. “Presumably the Jews in Israel are Zionists, or they would leave. But there are only a few million Israelis. In the United States, there are scores of millions of Christians in mainline churches who are Zionists and who support Israel as staunchly as any Israeli, with funds as well as prayer.” He continues, “Consider that tens of thousands of Jews not only are not Zionists; they fervently oppose Zionism. They believe that Zionism is condemned by Holy Scripture.”.. Netanyahu and the One-state Solution, by Neve Gordon | Palestine Chronicle  Israel's rejectionist stance will lead to the bi-national solution ...the real problem is that Netanyahu's outlook is totally detached from current political developments, particularly the changing power relations both in the Middle East and around the world. Indeed, his approach is totally anachronistic. Netanyahu's not-so-implicit threat that Israel will continue its colonial project if the Palestinians do not accept some kind of "Bantustan solution" no longer carries any weight... Extending Key Patriot Act Provisions | Stephen Lendman ...Under the Patriot Act's Section 806, with no hearing or notice, the government may confiscate or freeze all foreign and domestic assets of any individual, entity, or organization accused of engaging in, planning, supporting, concealing, or perpetrating any act called domestic or international terrorism against America - even by protesting nonviolently... Read more... Norman Finkelstein On Obama's Mideast Speech | Veterans Today Roundtable with author Norman Finkelstein, Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Noura Erakat, and Jeremy Ben-Ami, Head of Lobby Group J Street, by Democracy Now! Videos... Read transcript, watch videos... At the AIPAC Policy Pigout 2011 | Voltaire Network Watch videos... Is America Afraid of Israel? by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today  “A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.” –Tacitus, First Century Historian and Senator in the Roman Empire... Read more... A fictional Palestine never to become reality and a collision course, by Adam Keller | Gush Shalom The speech of PM Netanyahu in the US Congress was composed of dozens of colorful gimmicks and empty cliches, talk of a peace which he does not intend to conclude and of a fictional Palestinian state which he has no intention of seeing become reality... Read more... Tempers Flare Post CNI Press Briefing, by Alison Weir | Intifada Palestine “Israel Is Not Alone” member knocks phone out of my hand... Read more, watch video... Protester who heckled Netanyahu in Congress allegedly beaten, arrested at hospital, by Eric W. Dolan | The Raw Story CODEPINK activist Rae Abileah was arrested at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. after heckling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the anti-war group... Read more... DHS Merges with Pentagon and NSA Under Obama's Cyber Threat Plan, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Obama has proposed legislation that will give the Department of Homeland Security more “autonomy” in its effort to protect civilian computer networks from ostensible cyber attack... Read more, watch videos... Operation Phantasmagoria II: Gaza and Al-Quds, Linked In Blood | Mask of Zion  Beneath the "mask of Zion,"there is nothing but darkness, evil and crimes against humanity On March 23rd, a “bomb” rocked a crowded bus stop in Zionist-occupied al-Quds, killing a 60-year old woman and wounding over 30 others; the first of its kind in over 6 years. Though no Palestinian Resistance group claimed responsibility for the attack, the delusional, antagonistic and deeply misleading Zionist media immediately blamed Palestinians...Read more... In Saakashvili's Georgia, the Bloom Is Off the Rose | Stephen Lendman Since May 21, anti-goverment protests rocked Georgia. Organized by an alliance of opposition parties, they erupted initially in September 2007 for early elections and democratic change, as well as ending corruption and police state terror... Read more... Empire continues to sweat over Press TV, by Mark Dankof | PressTV What seems abundantly clear is that the Israeli intelligence community's allies in the British and American governments are increasingly worried about the English-language division of Press TV/Iran, especially its US Desk... Read more... AIPAC Conference: Target Islamic Republic | Rehmat's World ...David Gillette, AIPAC’s deputy director for policy and government affairs told Zionist delegates to push their congressional representatives to oppose both the unilateral Palestinian push for statehood and any peace talks that include “unreformed” members of Hamas. And what these ‘enlightened’ congressional representatives get in return for their pro-Israel lobbying, other than an all expenses paid trip to some of Tel Aviv’s 280 brothels – your guess is as good as mine... Read more... Bad News From The BBC - Part 1: 'Replete With Imbalance And Distortion' | Media Lens One of the main headlines on the BBC news homepage earlier this month read, 'Violence erupts at Israel borders'. Israeli soldiers had shot dead at least 12 protesters and injured dozens more. BBC 'impartiality' decreed that the brutal killings were presented almost as an act of nature, a volcanic eruption that simply happened... Read more... May 25, 2011 Regime Change at the IMF: The Frame-Up of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  Immediately following Strauss Kahn's arrest, pressures were exerted by Washington to speed up his replacement as Managing Director of the IMF preferably by a non-European, an American or a handpicked candidate from an "emerging market economy" or a developing country. Since the founding of the Bretton Woods institutions in 1945, the World Bank has been headed by an American whereas the IMF has been under the helm of a (Western) European. Strauss-Kahn is a member of elite groups who meet behind closed doors. He belongs to the Bildebergers. Categorized as one of the world's most influential persons, he is an academic and politician rather than a banker. In contrast to his predecessors at the IMF, he has no direct affiliation to a banking or financial institution... Read more... The two speeches of Barack Obama, by Josh Ruebner | The Hill ...The United States cannot continue to decry violent repression by governments against individuals acting to assert their fundamental human rights while continuing to provide Israel with the means—both weapons and diplomatic support — to continue its human rights abuses of Palestinians without mocking the values it claims to support universally... Read more... The Lobby Takes the Offensive, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar Israel’s amen corner ratchets up the rhetoric... Read more... Is the US Driving the World Towards World War III: Osama's Alleged Compound. How Many SEALs Died? by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, “there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.” The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. “We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing.”.. Read more... IMF Regime Change: With Christine Lagarde, US Corporations Enter the French Government, by Voltaire Network | Global Research Unknown to the French, lawyer Christine Lagarde became the Foreign Trade Minister of the government of Dominique de Villepin. Only a few years ago, she was defending the interests of US multinationals to the detriment of French companies. Her political positions perfectly match her status as a member of the CSIS, the think tank of the oil lobby in the United States... Read more... Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel | WSJ The ZioNazi paper of record gives us a little insight into the workings of the cabal... Read more... Just as well that Obama had no details about Middle East peace, by Nadia Hijab | The Hill ...Israel and America – the former accustomed to exercising absolute power over the Palestinians and the latter so practiced in pressuring the weaker party – still insist that direct negotiations are the only way forward, an absurd posture after 20 years of failure... Read more... Spy Drones Becoming Pervasive INSIDE America, by Washington's Blog | Global Research Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act... Read more... Einstein's Letter Warning of Israeli Terrorism | Christopher Bollyn  ...Albert Einstein, a devoted Zionist, was strongly opposed the Jewish terrorist gangs that later became the Likud, the ruling party of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu and the current leaders of Israel are the second generation of these terrorist gangs as is Rahm Emanuel, Obama's political advisor and first Chief of Staff... [His brand of Zionism was vastly different from today's] Read more...Protests erupt across Spain, by Siân Ruddick | Socialist Worker Mass demonstrations and protest camps have mushroomed across Spain as the young and the unemployed say “enough”. As many as 40 percent of Spain’s 4.5 million unemployed are under 25... Read more... Is Barack Obama the silliest man on the planet? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood considers the fallacies, lies and contradictions shown by US President Barack Obama during his speech on the Middle East where he set out one set of standards for Palestinians and Arabs and quite another for Israel whose land theft, lawlessness and violations of Palestinian rights he explicitly endorsed... Read more... The President Goes AIPACing, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...There was something wearying about the President’s speech to AIPAC. The first half of it was all about how we are so solidly committed to Israel that whatever they do we will never abandon them. It was all about how we are going to go right on arming them so that, in effect, they will continue to have no incentive to negotiate justly with the Palestinians. In other words, the first half of the speech was all about why the Israelis and their supporters need pay no attention to the 1967 borders... Read more... Argusoog Radio Interviews Gilad Atzmon | YouTube An intensive 2 hour interview with Dutch radio (19/5/ 2011). I basically speak about everything: Jewish Collectivism, Israeli criminality, AIPAC, Global Intifada etc'.. Watch video... Move Over AIPAC Flashmob (D.C. Union Station) | YouTube Tell Obama to get out of bed with AIPAC!.. Watch video... Moroccan jew speaks up against zionism and israeli racism | YouTube Watch video... 'Mubarak, Ben Ali's fall mirror Israel's' | PressTV Lauren Booth interviews Adie Mormech, journalist and teacher... Read more, watch video... New Details On Al Qaeda Pentagon Lunch: Defense Dept. Was "Impressed" With Terrorist's Presentation | Prison Planet ...Confirmation that Awlaki met with Pentagon officials after having inspired the very 9/11 hijackers that are blamed for flying a commercial airliner into the Pentagon provides yet more startling evidence that the highest levels of Al-Qaeda are completely penetrated and run by the US military industrial complex, which via patsy handlers like Awlaki is staging false flag attacks to boost their own domestic and geopolitical agenda... Read more... "The Genie Is Out of the Bottle": Assessing a Changing Arab World with Noam Chomsky and Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara | Democracy Now Read transcript, watch video... VFP 92 Adopts Resolution "SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY, EQUALITY, & PEACE IN PALESTINE" | Veterans for Peace Below is an annotated and hyperlinked version of the text of a resolution approved at the May general membership meeting of Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace... Read more... May 24, 2011 Operation Phantasmagoria I: Israel's New Shadow War On Palestine, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  ...there is nothing more phantasmagoric than the global aura surrounding the usurping, supremacist, terrorist entity known as Israel, which claims to be the Middle East’s “only democracy,” a phrase that in and of itself is phantasmagoric... Read more... 7/7 Ripple Effect | Vimeo Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockham’s Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day... Watch video... Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Colonial Predator Legacy, by James Petras | Information Clearing House The attempted rape and sexual abuse of an African cleaning woman by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) embodies, in microcosm, the entire historical and contemporary legacy of colonial neo-colonial relations. Efforts to portray this criminal act as an individual obsession or a personal failing or a “Latin idiosyncrasy” fail to take account of the ‘deep history’ in which these psychological pathologies are embedded... Read more... How to treat women Israeli style | YouTube Women hit by Israeli army in a peaceful march; European activists beaten by the Israeli army... Watch video... 'Two-states means no Palestine': Interview with Ralph Schoenman | PressTV Addressing the annual assembly of AIPAC, US President Barack Obama affirmed Washington's intimate commitment to Israel's security and insisted that the security of Israel is the priority of his administration... Read transcript, watch video... Extending Key Patriot Act Provisions | Stephen Lendman ...On October 26, George Bush signed it into law, prompting Center for Constitutional Rights senior litigation attorney Nancy Chang to ask, "What's So Patriotic About Trampling on the Bill of Rights?" saying:.. Read more... 'World silent on genocide in Arab world': Interview with Rodney Shakespeare | PressTV ...The main backer and ally of Bahrain's despotic regime, the United States, which holds a huge naval military base in the country, has remained silent on the aggravating human rights violations in the tiny oil-rich state... Read more... Binnie the Rat Nitwityahoo, by Les Visible | Profiles in Evil When it comes to pure evil, very few can compete with the Rothschilds and their gangster banking state of Israel. Nothing about that comment can be construed as anti-Semitic because there’s nothing Semitic about The Rothschilds or their agents... Read more... They Dare Not Speak Its Name ... ROTHSCHILD ZIONISM, by David Icke | YouTube Watch video... 'US politicians irresponsive to public': Interview with former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney | PressTV The political process in the United States is more responsive to the special interests of the country's two major parties than it is to the wishes of the Americans, says a former US Congresswoman... Read transcript, watch video... 'Three wars, millions suffering not 9/11 justice' | RT on YouTube Americans need to stop the military control of the US democracy, believes professor of law at Northwestern University, Bernardine Dohrn, the former leader of the radical American anti-Vietnam War organization Weather Underground... Read transcript, watch video... The X (Rated) Conference | Mantiq al-Tayr  Read more... Killings, Detentions and Torture in Egypt | Stephen Lendman On February 9, London Guardian writer Chris McGreal headlined, "Egypt's army 'involved in detentions and torture,' " saying: Military forces "secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass (anti-Mubarak) protests began, (and) at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian.".. Read more... Brief Notes From Palestine and The Ongoing Nakhba | Kawther Salam ...whatever the politicians cook up in their backrooms in order to belittle the issue within the Palestinians and Palestine, and whatever the zionsts and their American allies and western “friends” shout in their propaganda will be able to change the fact that I am a victim of zionism and the “state of israel”, that my family was expelled from their homeland until 1948, in order to make room for the establishment of the enemy of all humanity called “Israel” in Palestine, in the heart of the Middle East... Read more... Belgian Storm in Zionist eyes | Rehmat's World ..A few days ago, Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Centre’s director for international relations had sent a letter to country’s caretaker Prime Minister Yves Leterme, asking him to sack his Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck for calling for amnesty for Belgians who may have collaborated with Nazis... Read more... 'Israeli settlements recipe for disaster' | RT on YouTube One of the disappointments of the Obama-Netanyahu meeting on Friday was Obama's weak stance on the Israeli settlement growth, which is one of the crucial points on the road to peace in the region, believes Alice Rothchild, a Middle East author... Watch video... Obama Should Follow His Own Advice on the "Moral Force" of Non-Violence, by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis | Antiwar Given that President Obama daily authorizes the firing of hellfire missiles and the dropping of cluster bombs in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, it was awful odd seeing him wax eloquent this week about the "moral force of non-violence" in places like Egypt and Tunisia. But there he was, the commander-in-chief of the largest empire in history, praising the power of peaceful protest in countries with repressive leaders backed by his own administration... Read more... How Dare They Bomb Pakistan, That's Our Job, by Scott A. Hill | Antiwar ...William Hague, the British foreign secretary who has relentlessly supported American policy, has come out and condemned today’s attacks as "cowardly and indiscriminate." He went on to state that these "extremist groups have no regard for the value of human life." Parallel denouncements have never been offered of America’s drone attacks. They are conveniently forgotten. Brushed under the carpet with the comforting knowledge that mainstream media would never give the game away... Read more... 'Israel sowing discord in Middle East': Interview with Maidhc O Cathail | PressTV An analyst exposes the parasitic links between Western organizations and pro-Israeli groups with dissidents who cause interwoven upheavals in Middle Eastern countries... Watch video... Israel in a Post-American Era, by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar ...And what happened Sunday on the 63rd anniversary of Israel’s independence and the Palestinian “Nakba,” or “catastrophe,” where 700,000 fled or were driven into exile, is perhaps the most ominous portent of all... [Bring it on] Read more...The U.S. War Department, by Jim Kirwan | Rense  The United States 'government' is contemplating taking irreversible steps to place this nation in direct opposition to all International laws and all global history dating back to the Magna-Carta; by declaring that America is not bound by any of the laws that were created to govern the Global-Community of nations. "Congress To Vote On Declaration of Worldwide Perpetual War With No Borders And No Clear Enemies:".. [The Zionist coup continues to consolidate itself] Read more...Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington), by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar ...Americans seem remarkably incapable of doing anything other than repeating the same self-defeating acts, as if they had never happened before. Hence Afghanistan. Almost 10 years after the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan and proclaimed victory, like imam-paralyzed airline pilots, we find ourselves in a state that might otherwise be achieved only if you mated déjà vu with a Mobius strip... Read more... Lars von Trier and the Jewish Lobby | Rehmat's World ..The Danish Jewish cartoonist Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who solicited, selected and published the insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was defended for his ‘freedom of speech’ rights for hurting the feelings of 1.7 billion world Muslims but Lars von Trier is denied the same rights because he stepped on the toes of a few million powerful Zionist Jews... Read more, watch video... Bill Clinton Calls For Internet "Ministry of Truth", by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Despite couching his idea in fluffy, friendly, democratic rhetoric, Clinton is advocating the creation of a Communist Chinese-style state run media outlet... Read more... Brookings' "Which Path to Persia?", by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer While the corporate owned media has the plebeians arguing over whether or not Iran should have nuclear weapons or if it intends to commit genocide against the Jews (the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel actually resides in Iran), the debate is already over, and the war has already quietly begun. Before it began, however, someone meticulously meted out the details of how it would unfold. That "someone" is the mega-corporate backed Brookings Institute... Read more... Israel has lost touch with reality, by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor We will probably never really know if, as Israel's Prime Minister claimed, Iran and Syria orchestrated the Nakba demonstrations which led to the deaths of at least 12 Palestinians over the weekend. Accusations and counter-accusations will fill the media for a few days and then life will carry on as abnormal as it does in Israel and the territories it has occupied since 1967... [A number of people had to have lost touch with reality to have conceived the monstrous idea in the first place, let alone carried it out.] Read more...Most taboo subject in politics: the Holocaust, by Ryan Dawson | Vimeo Watch video... A Few Thoughts on Obama's Middle East Speech, by Phyllis Bennis | Interlink Books ...beyond the Arab Spring, the much-hoped for change in policy towards Palestinian-Israeli conflict was nowhere to be seen. President Obama’s closing words, “People should govern themselves” apparently do not apply to Palestinians. And apparently Obama’s claim that “every state has the right to self-defense” applies only to Israel, not to any future Palestinian state. He defined Israel as “a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people” which means accepting the apartheid laws discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel. And he identified “the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people,” repeating George W. Bush’s explicit rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced between 1947 and 1949 from their homes, in what is now Israel... Read more... May 23, 2011 Obama's Oratorical Skills and Peace in the Middle East, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  Peace, according to Netanyahu ..More oratorical promises to Palestinians as they watch their land disappearing before their eyes at the hand of an insatiable Israeli monster financed by billions of American tax payers’ money to build “Jewish only” settlements on the remaining 22 per cent of historical Palestine...Read more... Cruel and sadistic intoxication of power, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Our day started in the beautiful village of Al-Walaja at 11 AM as the villagers symbolically burned a refugee tent and decided to walk to their lands, much of it lies beyond the 1948 “Green line” ( itself dissolved by the Israeli occupation 1967 ). I was video documenting this historic event on the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba (the ethnic cleansing of 500 Palestinian villages and towns). Some 800 people from Al-Walaja, other Palestinians, and internationals walked down the hills to the valley that delineates the 1948 green line... Read more... Good video on Spain, interviewing the demonstrators This video includes good interviews with Spaniards, and it reveals the European-wide nature of the revolt. Also it reveals that the Spaniards are calling on people NOT TO VOTE—a wonderful development reflecting the growing understanding of people there about the need for an entire social revolution, not just a change in the politicians who administer the present system. - John Spritzler Watch video... Israel and Palestine: Here comes your non-violent resistance | The Economist  For many years now, we've heard American commentators bemoan the violence of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their state long ago. Surely no Israeli government would have violently suppressed a non-violent Palestinian movement of national liberation seeking only the universally recognised right of self-determination... Read more... Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles uses a poem by an unknown Palestinian author to highlight the fact that whether in refugee camps, living in the West Bank or as Israeli Arabs, Palestinians have all suffered 63 years of being sick of Israeli occupation... Read more... US, Israeli, Saudi involvement in Syrian uprising, by Tahir Mustafa | Crescent Intl  ..The protests in Syria are not entirely indigenous even if people have legitimate grievances. A much larger game is underway that has little to do with the rights of the people. The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia as well as exiled Syrian politicians are all involved in undermining the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for their own nefarious ends... Read more... Obama's Flawed Approach to the Israel/Palestine Conflict, by Richard Falk | Intifada Palestine ...when the soaring language is taken away, we should not be surprised that Obama continues to seek approval, as he has throughout his presidency, from the hawks in the State Department, the militarists in the Pentagon, and capitalist true believers on Wall Street. Such are the fixed parameters of his presidency with respect to foreign policy and explain why there is so much disappointment among his former most ardent followers during his uphill campaign for the presidency... Read more... Nakba 2011: 50,000 Palestinians Crash Israeli Border | Intifada Palestine Press TV speaks with Franklin Lamb,Veterans Today columnist and international lawyer participating in the NAKBA commemoration and witnessing the extraordinary scenes at the Lebanese border... Read more, watch video... May 22, 2011 If Arab Spring threatens Israel, why does Saban support it? by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine  Read more... The Nakba Day Protests and Their Significance | Free Palestine Movement Listen to Mustafa Barghouti, Dr Eyad Sarraj, Joseph Dana, and Omar Ghraieb discuss it.. and see who's going to Gaza... Read more... President Obama's Middle East Speech: New Year's Resolutions in May, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ..Like most new year’s resolutions, the president’s set, despite coming in May, are full of good intentions. First of all, life in the prior months have pointed out one’s problems in ways that are now hard to ignore. That is how the President approached the facts of the Arab Spring... Read more... China: The New Bin Laden, by Paul Craig Roberts | OpEdNews George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain, which is no longer great and follows Washington, licking the jackboot and submitting to Washington's hegemony over England and Europe and exhausting itself financially and morally in order to support Amerikan hegemony over the rest of the world... Read more... Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the World, by Christopher Bollyn | One Democratic State Read the entire book online... Jewish Clandestine Operation Exposed | Gilad Atzmon Below you will find an embarrassing 'call for action' circulated (selectively) by Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, a prominent UK Jewish ‘anti Zionist’ and one of the founders of 'J- Big', an exclusive Jewish cell, advocating the boycott of Israeli goods... Read more... Join the One State Initiative | Palestine Justice Network Many people of good faith yearn for a future that is a joint democratic pluralistic state that encompasses all of the historic land of Palestine (currently the political entities of the apartheid State of Israel and the post-1967 Israeli occupied Palestinian Territories). It is time to put our beliefs into practice by bringing together all these people to effect the needed transformation socially and politically... Read more... May 21, 2011 A Reflection on Elie Weisel and Hedy Epstein: Two Holocaust Survivors, by Mark Chmiel | Counterpunch  These days I am thinking of two Holocaust survivors. I had met with one today: 86 year-old Hedy Epstein and I had lunch at a local St. Louis café. The other is receiving an honorary doctorate tomorrow at Washington University: 82 year-old Elie Wiesel, who will also give the commencement address... [Did he mention that Wiesel is one of the greatest frauds of all time? Never mind, maybe I missed it.] Read more...The Responsibility to Protect: The Cases of Libya and Ivory Coast, by Prof. Marjorie Cohn | Global Research ...The military actions in Libya and Ivory Coast set a dangerous precedent of attacking countries where the leadership does not favor the pro-U.S. or pro-European Union countries. What will prevent the United States from stage-managing some protests, magnifying them in the corporate media as mass actions, and then bombing or attacking Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, or North Korea? Recall that during the Bush administration, Washington leveled baseless allegations to justify an illegal invasion of Iraq... Read more... My Visit to the USA | Gilad Atzmon ..I had the chance to meet with so many interesting people. The Palestinians and the solidarity activists I met seem more determined than ever. I also met some Jewish spiritual and political leaders who, for the first time, were courageous enough to debate my thoughts. It is more than clear that the message and call for justice is more and more appealing, more and more urgent, and more powerful... Read more... President Obama's True Speech on the Middle East, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...Until the American people say otherwise and until our campaign finance laws are reformed we as politicians are bound to our wealthy campaign donors whether it be Wall Street, the Oil, Banking, Health Insurance industry or from wealthy Jewish Americans whose primary allegiance is to Israel’s welfare. That is American politics today, yesterday, and tomorrow until the American people unite and tell us to work for our national interest... Read more... Absolutely amazing humiliation of the USA by Netanyahu | The Vineyard of the Saker That Netanyahu would dare to utterly humiliate Obama inside the White House on in front of the world press really proves what which has been clear for many years already: The USA is not a superpower. The USA is just an Israeli colony... Read more, watch video... Obama Talks Sense After Head Surgery, by Michael K. Smith | Legalienate Following emergency surgery to correct faltering mental capacities, President Barack Obama is "finally talking sense," according to a team of neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins. "It may be hard to believe, but he's really lucid and rational" said his chief neurosurgeon, Dr. Ding Dong, who performed the 7 1/2 hour-operation to replace the part of Obama's skull that had rotted away from years of exposure to neo-liberal ideology... Read more... Israel Harms Palestinians (And Itself): My Political Rupture With AIPAC, by Mike Gravel | Counterpunch ..The tragedy is that much of the nation's progressive Jewish community defers to Likud-like organizations, and too many Jewish donors -- as with Christian Zionists -- buy into fear-mongering and rationalizations for anti-Palestinian discrimination transmitted from abroad. A Jewish community once at the forefront of pushing for civil rights and equality in our own country too often today supports organizations and candidates upholding Israeli discrimination in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and, increasingly, within Israel itself... Read more... Obama demolished Palestinian chances for statehood, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz U.S. supports Israel's demand for the Palestinian state to be demilitarized, it supports postponing discussions on the refugees and Jerusalem, it talks about Israel's security and Israel's security alone... [And a good thing, too. A Palestinian State would entrench the Jewish state in Palestine, in the heart of the Middle East, virtually guaranteeing more death and destruction for millions for many generations to come. Israel must literally be wiped off the map if there is to be any chance of peace and justice in this world.] Read more...Steady State of Fear: Who's the Next Enemy? by Saul Landau | Counterpunch How did this country survive before it found formidable enemies around which the government could mobilize hatred and fear?.. Read more... May 20, 2011 Jewish settlers storm Palestinian school in OJ, attack homes in Al-Khalil | Palestinian Information Center  Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli occupation forces, stormed a school for orphans in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday and assaulted a number of students... [Typical behavior of the most dangerous psychopaths on the planet] Read more...Family says Israeli jailers poured boiling oil on its son | Occupied Palestine A Palestinian family said its son, Raf’at Bani Odeh, was exposed by Israeli jailers to excruciating physical and psychological torture at the time of his six-year detention. The family added that its son spent most of his imprisonment term in solitary confinement and boiling oil was once poured on him by Israeli interrogators, so he suffers from serious physical and psychological scars as a result of that... NATO's Secret Ground War in Libya, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research The following text examines US-NATO war plans and intelligence operations pertaining to Libya, prior to the onset of the insurrection in Eastern Libya and the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1973. From the outset, the conflict in North Africa was intended to lead into an all out NATO war. The Pentagon and NATO are not only arming the Transitional Council in violation of international law, they also had forces on the ground from the start... Read more... BDS update: 'I went because I needed to go' by Eric Walberg | OpEd New ...As if to goad activists to go, Israeli Ambassador to the EU Ran Curiel insisted his country is well within its rights to besiege the Gazans, calling on the flotilla organisers to bring their materials to Gaza through approved land-based routes. This, after Israel recently froze millions of dollars of aid and tax revenues to the Palestinians, and despite the fact that land channels means going through Israel and risking having cargo confiscated at the whim of hostile Israeli officials... Read more... Israel and Palestine: Here comes your non-violent resistance | The Economist For many years now, we've heard American commentators bemoan the violence of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their state long ago. Surely no Israeli government would have violently suppressed a non-violent Palestinian movement of national liberation seeking only the universally recognised right of self-determination... Read more... You Cannot Kill An Ideology With A Gun | Media Lens ...the focus is fixed on what 'they' have done to 'us'. The far greater violations 'we' have inflicted on 'them' do not exist. However appalling bin Laden's methods, the grievances he described – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland, US military bases and related support for tyrannies in Muslim countries, and the genocidal impact of Western sanctions and war on Iraq – are real... Read more... The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up: The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward, by Paul Craig Roberts | Prison Planet ..Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks. Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people. Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of a handful of economists who has a social conscience... Read more... Rape Arrest of IMF Head "False Flag", by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today There could be nothing more pure as a false flag terror operation than one involving charges of rape. Dominique Strauss Kahn, charged with an endless array of sexual crimes, rape, multiple sodomy charges is most likely the victim of one of the most obvious ploys known to man called the “honey trap.” Why was he a target of intelligence operations? The answer is both simple and complex... Read more... Historian writes of 'pleasure' at murder of pro-Palestinian activist, by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian  Vittorio Arrigoni, murdered in Gaza last month Author of op-ed article in Jewish Chronicle tells me he 'rejoiced' at death of Vittorio Arrigoni...Read more... Behind the attack on Libya are strategies of economic warfare, by Manlio Dinucci | Voltaire Network ..the war situation, plus France’s hasty endorsement of the National Transitional Council (10 March) and the London Conference (30 March) are all factors that have enabled multinational enterprises to modify their contract terms, now paying only a token fee on their exploitation rights. Under this angle, it has indeed all the trappings of a classic colonial war... Read more... U.S. Policy is Rooted in Lies, Injustice, and War, by Cynthia McKinney | Black Agenda Report The former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate is “saddened that our first African-American President presents a false perception of the Black political consensus in the U.S.” She told the peace conference: “We cannot bring our country to peace and respect for human dignity without the solid foundation of the truth.”.. Read more... 7 Ways Hedge Funds Lie, Cheat and Steal, by Les Leopold | AlterNet ..We are repeatedly told that hedge funds only take money in very large chunks from very sophisticated investors who should know what they are doing. You don’t walk into this casino unless your six-shooter is fully loaded. And besides, the story goes, who cares if they cheat since the money the winners rake in only comes from the losers. But the truth is far more complex. When all the facts are in, we’ll see that hedge funds take a little bit from us all. And when they cheat, they take even more... Read more... Inside Obama's "Orwellian World" Where Whistleblowing Has Become Espionage: The Case of Thomas Drake | Democracy Now ...Truth tellers, such as myself, are those who are simply doing their jobs and honoring their oaths to serve their nation under the law of the land. We are dedicated to the proposition that government service is of, for, by the people. We emphatically do not serve in order to manipulate on behalf of the powerful, nor to conceal unlawful, illegal or embarrassing secrets from the public, because truth does matter... Read transcript, watch video... The Samson Option, by Haze Mac | Antisupremacy ..Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines” when he brought the roof of a temple down on about three thousand Gazite men and women, As the prototype ‘suicide bomber’ Samson “killed more when he died than he had when he was alive.” We are all ‘Philistines’ to Israel and that is why they are blackmailing the world with the nuclear ‘Samson Option’ if their supremacy is challenged. If they go under, they are taking us with them!.. [Yes, they are indeed insane enough to do it] Read more...3 Fatal Flaws in Ayn Rand's Perverse 'Moral Philosophy', by Catherine Burke | AlterNet It is astonishing that a 54-year-old book, based upon three patently false premises, has suddenly been resurrected. The Chair of the House Budget Committee requires his staff to read Atlas Shrugged. On April 19, 2011 it ranked 17th on Amazon’s list of best sellers. It is said to be a favorite among Tea Party activists. It’s even been made into an independent movie, albeit omitting some of the steamier sex – one woman and three men?.. Read more... My Campaign for Justice for John Demjanjuk, by Jerome A. Brentar | Institute for Historical Review ...John Demjanjuk has been a victim of an unprecedented travesty of justice. The US Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, working with the Soviet government, and those who might be called "Holocaustians" have carried on a campaign to portray this innocent man as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka... [Just as true now as it was then] Read more...The People vs. Goldman Sachs, by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone ..Thanks to an extraordinary investigative effort by a Senate subcommittee that unilaterally decided to take up the burden the criminal justice system has repeatedly refused to shoulder, we now know exactly what Goldman Sachs executives like Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks lied about. We know exactly how they and other top Goldman executives, including David Viniar and Thomas Montag, defrauded their clients. America has been waiting for a case to bring against Wall Street. Here it is, and the evidence has been gift-wrapped and left at the doorstep of federal prosecutors, evidence that doesn't leave much doubt: Goldman Sachs should stand trial... Read more... Finkelstein in March on Israel's Cairo Embassy, Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Salem-News If you’ve been trying lately to contact Dr. Norman Finkelstein via email only you kept getting this reply “I will be out of town until 20 May 2011. I will not have access to internet so I will not be able to check my email” .. Then you must have wondered where Dr. Finkelstein was and what could that seemingly urgent matter, that kept him from checking his email, be?.. Read more... The International Criminal Court: An Imperial Tool | Stephen Lendman ...since established in October 1945, its leadership did nothing to deter war, human rights abuses, or other high crimes of powerful member states, notably Western ones and Israel, repeatedly committing crimes of war and against humanity with impunity. Neither has the ICC, functioning solely as an imperial tool, targeting outlier states Western powers designate, notably America whose leaders commit the worst of high crimes, acting lawlessly with impunity because no international body or court holds them accountable... Read more... May 19, 2011 Israel's Doomed Fate | Gilad Atzmon  It is becoming clear that Israel lacks the means to cope with Palestinian resilience. Despite Israeli barbarism; despite sixty-three years of oppression, racial discrimination and mass murderous tactics - including the usage of WMD - the Palestinian people have remained determined to return to their land... Read more... The Nastiest Nazi | Roy Tov ...following the Goldstone and Beit Oranim Reports it is quite clear Israelis cannot differentiate between good and evil; thus expecting coherency and logic from them is a bit too much, as the events to be mentioned prove... [In my view, the German Nazis were pussycats compared to the Zionists.] Read more...The Judicial Lynching of Attorney Edgar Steele, by Pat Shannan | American Free Press I have become known for taking hopeless cases involving the politically incorrect. It used to be there weren't that many, but it has turned into a flood today. I can't even keep track of all of the controversial individuals who crop up these days.These cases bode ill for every single person in this room, indeed, everybody throughout America today, particularly for our ability to speak out as we are doing in this conference... Read more... Satan's Chosen People | Rebel News ..I know Israel mistreats the Palestinians and stole their land. I know Israel spies on America and sells top secret info to Russia and key business plans to China. I know Israel has hundreds of illegal nuclear missiles but I don't care because the Jews are God's chosen people. I know this because the Jews wrote a book that says so... [A slight quibble - it is not "the Jews" - there is no such animal - it is the Zionists, who are an outgrowth of Pharisaic, Talmudic culture that has suppressed and supplanted the positive elements within Judaic culture. "The concept of a racial state - the Hitlerian concept- is repugnant to the civilized world, as witness the fearful global war in which we are involved..I urge that we do nothing to set us back on the road to the past.To project at this time the creation of a Jewish state..is to launch a singular innovation in world affairs which might well have incalculable consequences." - Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism - in 1944] Read more...The true moral leaders of the world, by John Kaminski | Rebel News Not since the idealistic rhetoric of John F. Kennedy have I heard an elected world leader use words that have been actual music to my ears. So when I heard this.. "The occupation of other countries under the pretext of freedom and democracy is an unforgivable crime. The world needs the logic of compassion and justice and inclusive participation instead of the logic of force, domination, unilateralism, war and humiliation. The world needs to be governed by virtuous people like the divine prophets .".. I did a double take... Read more... 'US backs ME's most oppressive nation' | PressTV Despite its routine delivery of democracy slogans, the US continues to support the Middle East's most oppressive nation, Saudi Arabia, an American columnist says... Read more, watch video... Killing Rachel Corrie Twice | Stephen Lendman ...an Israeli naval vessel attacked the Malaysian owned ship the Spirit of Rachel Corrie, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.. Lawless Monday followed Nakba Day's bloody Sunday, Israeli security forces assaulting unprecedented numbers of nonviolent demonstrators in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and along the Lebanese/Syrian borders... Read more... Globalists Like To Rape Women, As Well As Nations, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Given the fact that the likes of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and other top globalists are intent on raping the national and monetary sovereignty of countries in pursuit of their new world order, it's no surprise that they also seem pre-occupied with raping women, amongst a host of other sordid and predatory perversions... Read more, watch video... Palestinian Nakba protests: a taste of the future | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that the scenes of Palestinian defiance on Nakba Day in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and on Israel's borders with Syria "will fuel the imaginations of Palestinians everywhere to start thinking the impossible", placing Israel "in a diplomatic and strategic dead-end"... Read more... Contemporary village idiots: powerful, wealthy and loud | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles views some prominent latter-day village idiots - talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, real estate baron Donald Trump, congressman and potential US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and others - and argues that, unlike the traditional harmless "village idiot", these are repugnant, negative and dangerous idiots... [The sad truth is that Balles could just as well have named many thousands, including virtually the entire Senate and House of Representatives who have been committing high treason by supporting the interests of a foreign country over those of the USA. This is not an Empire that is going to go out with a bang, although the psychotic State of Israel just might, and that is a problem that we may have to face.] Read more...Intervista a Gilad Atzmon - 3 di 4 | Gilad Atzmon 3rd part of the interview with Rinaldo Francesca dealing with Anti Semitism, Racism, NO Jewish Conspiracy, Lord Levy, David Aarovitch, Nick Cohen, JAC & self censorship... Read more, watch video... He did it: Hassan Hijazi returned to Yafa (Jaffa) - Millions will follow | Uprooted Palestinians "The old will die and the young will forget (the Nakba)." David Ben Gurion, first Zionist prime minister said in 1948, 35 years before the birth of Hassan Hijazi, the Palestinian Bouazizi... Read more... Biblical Patriarchs Abraham & Moses NEVER EXISTED as the Bible portrays | YouTube This is a clip from the [archeological] documentary "Bible Unearthed." This clip is the section dealing with Abraham and Moses, also known as biblical patriarchs... Read more, watch video... To Gaza With Love_The Audacity Of Hope | YouTube Watch video... May 18, 2011 Challenging AIPAC's Abuse of Taxpayers Money, by Omar Barghouti | Palestine Chronicle  AIPAC has falsely advertised Israel as a democratic state The Arab democratic spring, striving to end authoritarian rule and establish freedoms and social justice, has not been welcome by all. Israel and its main lobby in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for instance, appear to have been caught off guard and visibly disturbed by the seemingly irreversible transformations that these uprisings promise to bring about in the Arab world and, to an extent, the world at large...Read more... Boycott Bibi! | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation House Speaker John Boehner has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress this month in conjunction with the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... Read more... A small smear job: Speaking with Will Yakowicz | Israel Shamir Modern journalism is more akin to warfare than a search for truth. I have been misquoted so many times that it’s a wonder I speak to anyone at all. “Don’t speak to strangers” is what they told us in kindergarten, and I’m sure I’d be better off if I followed that advice... Read more... The West is Trapped in its Own Propaganda, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch ...It is a strange form of democracy that produces political outcomes that reward the few and punish the many, despite the energetic protests of the many... Read more... Standing for Human Rights, Dignity in Gaza, by Jane Hirschmann | Palestine Chronicle Gaza is crumbling under the weight of an Israeli siege backed by the Obama administration. Roughly 80 percent of Palestinians in Gaza now depend on aid. Vast amounts of infrastructure destroyed in the Israeli attack of 2008-09 require repair. Thousands of families still live doubled up with relatives or are homeless... Read more... Israeli troops kill unarmed Palestinian protestors on borders, by Patrick O'Connor | WSWS Israeli soldiers yesterday killed at least fifteen Palestinians and wounded many more as they suppressed protests held at border posts facing Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza to mark the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the Zionist state... Read more... Israel revoked residency of 140,000 West Bank residents, by Adrian Blomfield | The Telegraph ..According to a document released to Haaretz, Palestinians who moved abroad temporarily lost their right to live in the West Bank if they did not return on a sufficiently regular basis after a six-year period had elapsed. The Palestinians appear not to have been informed of the procedure... Read more... Libyan Rebels Killing Civilians in Benghazi, by Stephen Lendman | Uruknet In London, at a June 1999 anti-Yugoslavia war rally, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter scathed US and UK leaders, saying: "Let us face the truth....(N)either Clinton nor Blair gives a damn about the Kosovar Albanians. This action has been another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile....to consolidate....American domination of Europe.".. Read more... Sex Slavery: The Growing Trade in Israel | The People's Voice 10,000 Eastern European and Russian girls are lured to Israel each year and enslaved as prostitutes. They are forced to work in peep shows, pornographic films, in apartments, in bars, as streetwalkers, and in the more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv... Read more, watch video... Israel Attacks Humanitarian Ship to Gaza in International Waters, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  Global Research has been in contact with the Spirit of Rachel Corrie, a Malaysian ship carrying a humanitarian aid cargo to Gaza, which has been attacked in international waters by Israel... Read more... The 'Good War' Myth of World War Two, by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Review ...In the view of British author and historian Paul Addison, “the war served a generation of Britons and Americans as a myth which enshrined their essential purity, a parable of good and evil.” Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme wartime Commander of American forces in Europe, and later US president for eight years, called the fight against Nazi Germany “the Great Crusade.” And President Bill Clinton said that in World War II the United States “saved the world from tyranny.” Americans are also told that this was an unavoidable and necessary war, one that the US had to wage to keep from being enslaved by cruel and ruthless dictators... Read more... The 15th of May is a day of remembrance. Around the world, we remember the systematic displacement and massacre of the Palestinian people. In their honour, we take note of the necessity of safeguarding the sliver of impoverished land that has been left to the survivors. We pay tribute to those who have refused to be stomped into oblivion... Read more... On an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible, by Jonathan Cook | The National This Nakba Day was unlike the many that have come before. The Palestinian Arab Spring is arriving, and Israel has little defence against it... Read more... 'ICC is a Western dominated failure': Interview with Franklin Lamb | Press TV The International Criminal Court is going after Libya's Moammar Gaddafi yet selectively ignores Bahrain, where the situation has devolved into an ethnic cleansing of the Shia population... Read more, watch video... 'Israel, an instrument of Imperialism' | PressTV "What we are commemorating is not merely the foundation of the [Israeli] state, but the genocide and removal of the population, the indigenous population of the people of the Palestine," political commentator Ralph Schoenman told Press TV... Read more, watch video... Zionists alter law to protect themselves: Interview with James Thring | PressTV The Israeli lobby's influence over US, UK and EU politics persuades changes to the law in such countries to protect Israel against prosecution for war crimes... Read more, watch video... [When karma finally catches up with them, they will have nowhere to run to.] Read more...Dispossession & Exploitation: Israel's policy in the Jordan Valley & northern Dead Sea, by B'Tselem | Ramallah Online ...Israel has instituted in this area a regime that intensively exploits its resources, to an extent greater than elsewhere in the West Bank, and which demonstrates its intention: de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area to the State of Israel... Read more... May 17, 2011 Compilation Of Videos, Pictures And Some Articles On Nakba | One Democratic State  Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh was arrested on 15th of May (Nakba day) as he went with a group of Palestinians and others to a village, Al Walaja, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. At this time he is still being held. There are several videos of the events of Nakba Day in Palestine... [Mazin is a friend of mine, a Palestinian Christian and geneticist from Bethlehem who returned home from a comfortable home in New Haven to stand with his people. There are many so-called "Christians" in this world, but very few genuine ones - he is one of them [The Editor]...] Read more, watch videos...Are We A Thoughtless Heartless World, by Dr. Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine The Herculean Accomplishment of a Small band of Zionist Thieves, Genocidal Liars, and Barons who Stole a Nation, Palestine, and Occupied another, the United States, is nothing short of a historical miracle... Read more... Reporting from the perspective of 1948: a profile of Jonathan Cook, by Jon Dillingham | Mondoweiss Over a dozen innocent Palestinians had been killed by Israeli police, but The Guardian wasn’t interested. It was 2001 and Jonathan Cook, a foreign desk editor at the paper, had just returned from from Israel reporting that police in Nazareth had murdered 13 non-violent Arab protestors during the second intifada the year before. Cook expected his editors at the "leftwing" paper to jump at the story, but he was sorely disappointed... Read more, watch video... 1948 - Al Nakba: a family's collective memory, by Merna Alazzeh | Gilad Atzmon "The old will die and the young will forget." This was the prediction of the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. 63 years later, I still wonder what made him think so. Would the Jewish masses - or indeed any of the other groups of people - that suffered the Holocaust ever forget?.. Read more... The Jewish Supremacy Court, by Clay Farrell | The Nationalist Coalition Something you have not heard much about yet but will hear a little about the rest of this month is the Senate confirmation hearings of President Obama’s second Supreme Court nomination, Solicitor General Elena Kagan. The Senate confirmation hearings began this week and the Constitution-mandated nomination confirmation proceeding, which is headed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, will go through the motions of a question-and-answer, dog and pony show, prior to the official Senate nomination confirmation in mid-July... Read more... Bin Laden Operation Discredits U.S. Armed Forces, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Nothing could be worse than the story released by the Obama administration. Their claim is that 25 Navy Seals were flown into Pakistan to murder an unarmed and unguarded man whose identity is now in doubt. Legal experts around the world universally characterize the operation, if it actually happened at all, as a criminal act and those involved as subject to prosecution. This issue is unlikely to gain much attention, however, as the majority of people who had not concluded that Osama bin Laden had died in 2001 as reported are now reconsidering their position... Read more... Otherwise Occupied: The story of the real Geronimo, by Amira Hass | Haaretz Harlyn Geronimo, the great-grandson of the legendary Apache freedom fighter, is demanding an apology from Barack Obama for naming the operation to kill bin Laden after his great-grandfather... [On the other hand, if one views bin Laden from outside the Imperial magic lantern, maybe the name was (inadvertantly) well chosen.] Read more...'Gaddafi cared about Libyan people': Interview with Edward Corrigan | Press TV on YouTube NATO warplanes have been carrying out air strikes in Libya for the past two months as part of a UN mandate to protect the Libyan civilians... Read more, watch video... 'Thousands in US support Palestinians': An interview with Stephen Lendman | PressTV Israeli forces are confronting the peaceful demonstrators violently. They do not care. They will attack them, assault them, shoot them and kill them. The EU report was shocking that Israel was firing at least a few tank shells at peaceful protesters in Gaza. I wish all Americans knew about this, but very few will... Read more, watch video... Nakba: 63 years of incessant brutality, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV ... 63 years have passed since the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the Palestinian children, women and men are being killed and murdered on a daily basis, their lands are stolen and their properties are confiscated. Despite the brutality of the Israeli regime, the world including the dispassionate and neutral Arab states of the Persian Gulf, watch the agony and suffering of the Palestinian nation with apathy and indifference. .. Read more... Creating the Bin Laden "Reality," by Paul Craig Roberts | Prison Planet I have heard one dozen times today (May 13) from media that the US killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. I heard it three times from National Public Radio, twice from the BBC, and from every TV and radio station I encountered, even those stations that play the rock and roll music of the 1950s and 1960s. The killing of bin Laden has now entered the legends of our time and, no doubt, the history books... Read more... 'Libya is US, China's battleground': Interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | PressTV The US seeks control of Libyan oil facilities in order to push China and Russia out of the Mediterranean in its quest for world hegemony... Read transcript, watch video... 'US a partner in Saleh's crimes': Interview with Bill Doares | PressTV The US could stop the flow of aid and arms to dictators ruling the Persian Gulf Arab states, but Washington enjoys the family money flowing to Wall Street... Read more... Israeli Jews should mark Nakba Day, too, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz It is possible and necessary to teach that this glory that is the establishment of Israel also has a dark side - so we can know our history, and understand the wishes of the Palestinians... [Although still a Zionist in the strict sense, Levy is also a heroic truth teller.] Read more... Can the UN be trusted to grant long overdue statehood to Palestinians? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas must reform its antiquated charter and seriously promote the Palestinian cause on the world stage, or else the Palestinian bid for statehood risks becoming another victim of US-Israeli blocking tactics... [Let them scuttle it - it would be disastrous for the Palestinians and the rest of the world.] Read more...May 16, 2011 As Long As the Olive Trees Live, by Nour Rida | Moqawama  ..In an attempt to affirm the Right of Return of the Palestinians to their homeland, possessions and villages from which they were coercively driven out, to affirm the Right of Return as a sacred, historical, legitimate, legal, humane and political right, to affirm that the Right of Return is a permanent, unconditional, non-negotiable and irrevocable right... free people will march towards the borders, while others will hold events in various countries around the world in solidarity with their Palestinian brethrens... Read more... Pro-Israel Support For Syrian Protests Exposed On RT's Crosstalk, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine According to an April 18 Washington Post report, the State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) has funneled up to $6 million to Syrian opposition groups such as Barada TV since 2006. MEPI is supervised by Tamara Wittes, a longtime pro-Israel advocate of democratic reform in the Middle East... Read more, watch video... Third Intifada Launched in Tahrir Square While US Peace Envoy Quits, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine Maybe the Arab-Israeli conflict doesn’t need any more US special envoy, maybe president Obama shouldn’t bother appointing a replacement, for, as far as the Palestinians are concerned, they had enough of this backstage Zionist-manipulated politics disguised as peace envoys... Read more... From "Right of Return" to "Return in Practice " | Gilad Atzmon ...Israel Military officials said the IDF was using "all means" in order to “keep infiltrators out of Israel”. Someone should remind the Israelis that it is actually the Israelis who are the infiltrators. The Palestinians are the indigenous people of the land. The land that is stretched between the river and the sea is called Palestine and it is just a question of time before it is returned to its owners... Read more... Palestinian Villages Destroyed During the Nakba 1948 | YouTube Watch video... The Nakba: what does it mean in human terms? by Sonja Karkar | Australians for Palestine  The Nakba is the Palestinian catastrophe. It means upheaval, violence and cataclysmic loss; it describes the terror, which drove almost one million people out of their homeland, as well as the perpetual terror in exile –displaced, dispossessed, stateless, lost and forbidden to return; it remains the multiplying injustice of another people’s sin burgeoning in our collective silence... Read more... United we stand, by Brenda Heard | Moqawama ..the various calls for reform we are witnessing today in the Arab world are calls for integrity. They are resistance to a state divided from its people, resistance to a people divided from each other, and resistance to foreign states imposing their own agendas. In particular, the eagerness of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples to achieve national unity is a key element of this developing global balance. Yet their eagerness has not been cheered; instead, it has been routinely met with stern disapproval from America-the self-proclaimed champion of united patriotism... Read more... I'm sick of 63 years of Israeli occupation | Gilad Atzmon [I too am heartily sick of it, as is most of the world. May the Zionist entity follow Nazi Germany in being flushed down the toilet of history!] Read poem, watch video...Thirteen killed as Israeli troops open fire on Nakba Day border protests | The Guardian Many more wounded in clashes at Israel's borders with Syria, Gaza and Lebanon, as UN appeals for 'maximum restraint'.. Read more... Rebranding Israel: will Netanyahu get away with it? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that the timing of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “rebranding Israel” trip to the United States, coming as the US prepares for congressional and presidential elections and, therefore, when President Barack Obama is least courageous, means “Only bad things can come out of Netanyahu’s visit to America. And I mean bad things for all of us, everywhere.” Read more... Egypt Israel consider each other enemies | PressTV Press TV talks with Abdallah Hamouda, Egyptian journalist in London about the rebuilding of Egypt as a leading regional power... Read more, watch video... Why I blew the whistle about Palestine, by Ziyad Clot | The Guardian Israel's attack on Gaza and the disastrous 'peace talks' compelled me to leak what I knew.. In Palestine, the time has come for national reconciliation. On the eve of the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba – the uprooting of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948 – this is a long-awaited and hopeful moment... Read more... In the Theater of the Absurd: US-NATO Support "Al Qaeda in Libya", by Gerald A. Perreira | Global Research In the Theatre of the Absurd, anything is possible. However, this latest scenario in Libya has taken absurdity to a whole new dimension. A rag-tag bunch of armed, al-Qaeda affiliated tribesmen, being referred to as a ‘pro-democracy movement’ by British State TV (BBC) and other mainstream media outlets, are now being openly armed and trained by the French, British and American governments. This same Coalition of Crusaders, with the support of the Arab League, is fighting alongside the rebels, launching continual bombing raids on targets in Tripoli and beyond, including Muammar Qadhafi’s compound, in a brazen attempt to assassinate the man and re-colonise Libya... Read more... May 15, 2011 AIPAC 101: What Every American Should Know, video by Anthony Lawson | Intifada Palestine  The AIPAC circus is coming to town, Washington, May 22nd to May 24th, 2011... Read more, watch video... Liberating the American People | Gilad Atzmon on YouTube A musical interlude... Watch video... Osama bin Laden Transfigured, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ..An effort is being made to confirm that bin Laden was still a very dangerous man, plotting with his associates and “coming up with ideas” about attacking transportation hubs in the US, but there is little to suggest that the aging terrorist was well positioned to mount any effective operations against anyone. As he relied on couriers to communicate his wishes he was not even able to send instructions or advice to his remaining associates in under a week, hardly qualifying him as a hands-on master of terror... Read more... The Tide has Turned in Favor of the Assad Government, by Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat What I continue to find in Syria and what I saw during my first 24 hours in Damascus shocked me. It was not at all what one expected to find having read a fair bit of the Western and some of the Arab media reports... Read more... 'Americanization agenda at work in ME': Interview with Phil Rees | PressTV The US manipulates global capital and economics for its self interests and its foreign policy doesn't include real democracy... Read more... Behind the Holocaust, by J. Bruce Campbell | Veterans Today What was Hitler’s unforgivable sin?.. [As much as I'd like to disagree with this article, being Jewish and all, in spite of a few minor quibbles I can't find anything in particular to take issue with. It's mostly the simple, sad truth.] Read more, watch video...Blackwater Founder Forms Secret Army for Arab State | NYT  Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has a new project Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand... Read more... Resurrecting The Bogus FARC-EP Files/Venezuela Connection | Stephen Lendman The story surfaced in March 2008 after Colombia's military, with US Special Forces help, attacked a FARC-EP rebel camp in Ecuador. Over 20 people were killed, including 16 or more FARC-EP members while they slept. Key among them was Paul Reyes, the FARC-EP's second-in-command, their peace negotiator, public voice, and lead figure in the Chavez-led hostage negotiations with Colombia at the time... Read more... Video from the March for Peace with Justice and Dignity | CIP Americas [The Mexican people against the "war on drugs"] Watch video... Israel's phantom of Muslim Brotherhood | Rehmat's World Lately, the Zionist mafia sees phantom of Egyptian ‘moderate’ Islamic religious-political organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, in every coner of the Muslim world and beyond. Lately, the Jewish-owned mainstream media is full of scary predictions of Muslim Brotherhood’s expected rise to power in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, etc... Read more... 'NATO to privatize Libyan resources' | YouTube NATO will stay in Libya after Colonel Gaddafi is toppled to take advantage of the natural resources and to put an end to the independent banking system, says an analyst... Watch video... Time to replace the memory of expulsion with the reality of return | Middle East Monitor This year's commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe) is like no other. For the first time in many decades the Palestine issue has truly found its way to the top of the Arab political agenda; that's a long overdue achievement. Palestinians in the historic homeland and the diaspora recognise the changes taking place around them. As part of the wider Arab family of nations they are determined to play their part to regain their usurped rights... Read more... Hillary Clinton: The voice of American hypocrisy | Lucky Kiwi  Cartoon from the Manawatu Standard (NZ). Of course, if you accept that there is one law for the United States and another law for everyone else (which is the premise of American exceptionalism), there is nothing inconsistent here... See more... Interview with Gilad Atzmon Exploring Zionist indoctrination and Israeli crimes.. Watch video... The Persecution of John Demjanjuk, by Pat Buchanan | Creators "John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders," ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: "A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland." Not until paragraph 17 does one find this jolting fact: "No evidence was produced that he committed a specific crime.".. Read more... When I Return | USPCN When I Return is a participatory campaign featuring simple notes by Palestinians, Arabs and allies describing what they hope to do when they return to Palestine. When I Return intends to unleash the Nakba’s daily resonance, as not only a receding point in a past to be commemorated, but a persistent moment binding us to our past, our present and to each other... Read more... 'US deems pliable states democracies': Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV The US intervenes militarily in other countries directly or by proxy in order to protect its lion's share even it amounts to overthrowing a democracy... Read transcript, watch video... May 14, 2011 Nakba: a Remembrance, by Prof. William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine  What silent communion this scene holds, Read more...Of a life lived and one yet to unfold;.. Israel bucks pro-democracy trend and promotes repression | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon argues that as Arabs across the region struggle for more openness and democracy, Israeli law seems to be headed in the opposite direction, whereby many Israelis are not only acquiescent, but have also been supportive of parliament members who are drafting new legislation to silence public criticism and to delegitimize political rivals, human rights organizations and the Palestinian minority... Read more... Scottish First Minister supports sanctions against Israel, by Mick Napier | Palestine Telegraph First Minister Alex Salmond supported economic sanctions against Israel. He described Israel’s massacre of nine Mavi Marmara passengers as an “atrocity on the high seas” and put Israel firmly beyond the pale. “This has implications for example in trading relationships—you can’t have normal relationships if you believe another country has been involved in what Israel has been involved in.”.. Read more... Noam Chomsky: "The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World" | Democracy Now ..Noam Chomsky analyzes the U.S. response to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. "Across the [Middle East], an overwhelming majority of the population regards the United States as the main threat to their interests,".. Read transcript, watch video... Osama and the Ghosts of September 11: "Proof that Obama is Lying", by Michael C. Ruppert | Global Research ...Let’s start with what I consider the most-obvious proof that the Obama administration is lying. It comes from a world-class microbiologist who allowed me to use this quote on condition of anonymity. The simple proof of his accuracy is to just ask any microbiologist experienced in DNA sequencing about his statement... Read more... Peace Demands Challenging Israel's Exceptionalism, by Omar Barghouti | Intifada Palestine ...what is often objected to is the demand for full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel. One can only wonder, if equality ends Israel’s “existence,” what does that say about Israel? Did equality destroy South Africa? Did it “delegitimize” whites in the Southern states of the U.S. after segregation was outlawed? The only thing that equality, human rights and justice really destroy is a system of injustice, inequality and racial discrimination... Read more... Gilad Atzmon on Munir Muhammad TV Show in Chicago We spoke about Israel, Palestine, music, collective brutality, the 1st Lebanon war and other very interesting topics... Watch video... 'US repressing 3rd party alternatives': Interview with Allison Weir, Mark Dankoff and David Lindorff | PressTV The US Democratic and Republican Party will “desperately” try to prevent a third party from running in next year's presidential election, an analyst says.. Read more, watch video... Ethan McCord, Former US army specialist | Press TV/YouTube Of the thousands of classified documents and videos released by Wikileaks, one perhaps is the most disturbing. The video is called Collateral Murder... Read more, watch video... Where are the Arab billions? by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor ...Faisal belonged to a generation of Arab leaders who knew the centrality of the Palestinian question to the survival and future of the Arab people. He also understood the ramifications and risks of challenging the American empire whose policies were influenced and controlled tightly by the Zionists then as, indeed, they are now. King Faisal paid with his life for daring to say "no" to the evil empire which masquerades as a force for democracy, freedom and justice while pursuing an agenda based on imperialism and neo-colonialism... Read more... 'West backs puppets to use ME wealth' | PressTV ...by installing a puppet monarchy, the US,.. and the West in general have been allowed to exert control over the resources in that part of the world, Dahlia Wasfi told Press TV... Read more, watch video... 'Dark economic future awaits Bahrain' | PressTV ..“Bahrain has become a complete pariah state with no honor or respect anywhere, except of course with the other pariah states,” Professor Rodney Shakespeare told Press TV... Read more, watch video... Bahraini State Terror Continues | Stephen Lendman Bahraini and Saudi security forces continue daily terror in Bahrain, human rights groups condemning the violence, including Amnesty International (AI), providing regular updates... Read more... Proof Bin Laden Death Another Gov't Lie, by Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes | Infowars ..The Phantom Osama bin Laden was a skeleton key opening the door to foreign intervention in the middle east or anywhere al Qaeda might be. The motive is simple– ever-expanding wars for the military industrial complex, and the often more lucrative periods of reconstruction (i.e. you break it, you buy it). The occupation continues here at home with the creation of a police state supposedly meant to combat terrorism... Read more, watch video... US: Wag the Dog, by Wayne Madsen | Rebel News ...Obama claimed that the SEALs had shot and killed Bin Laden in a firefight. The reason for the delay of Obama's announcement, according to WMR's sources, had nothing to do with national security but to alert Obama's student supporters at George Washington and Howard universities in Washington, DC to marshal a group of Obama fans to gather at Lafayette Park in front of the White House in a "flash mob" to stage a pep rally for Obama after his announcement. The "Wag the Dog"-inspired demonstration was planned by Obama's political adviser David Plouffe... [The source article is from Opinion-Maker - if you go there the page you get just says This Account Has Been Suspended - most likely it's the Gestapo (aka Homeland Security) doing its thing.] Read more...Israeli Officials and History Affirm the Power of BDS, by Anna Baltzer | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Are boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) proving effective at isolating Israel as a form of pressure to end its violations of Palestinian rights? We at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation think so, but you don’t have to take our word for it... Read more... Making a stand for human rights and dignity in Gaza | Redress Information & Analysis Jane Hirschmann outlines the compelling humanitarian case behind the planned 1,000-strong human rights flotilla due to set sail for the beleaguered Gaza Strip this June in order to highlight the Israeli-designed and Western-backed catastrophe gripping the people of Gaza... Read more... May 13, 2011 Israel's Zionist Offensive To Derail Palestinian Statehood, by Mikail Jubran | Intifada Palestine  A concerted united front of mainstream American pro-Zionist, Jewish and pro-Israeli organizations has begun to assert itself in an all-out campaign to “sabotage” any and all Palestinian efforts to declare a state this fall... [Let's hope that the Zionists succeed in this effort - otherwise it will spell the end of the Palestinian effort to recover their homeland, and the world will be saddled with the ZioNazi State for a long time to come and all that that implies.] Read more... Rebuilding Gaza: O'Keefe and survivors of Cast Lead 'massacre' join forces in safe-trade project, by Stuart Littlewood | Veterans Today No fewer than 29 members of the Samouni family, including many of the women and children, were callously slaughtered by Israeli troops during their assault on the Gaza Strip, known as Operation Cast Lead, some two years ago. For the benefit of those who have not seen the Goldstone Report extracts describing events in considerable detail are included in an appendix below. After reading the report it is no surprise that the Israeli regime has pulled out all the stops to discredit Judge Goldstone and his colleagues for daring to reveal the true behavior of ‘the most moral army in the world’... Read more... Washington funnels confiscated Libyan assets to "rebel" leadership, by Patrick O'Connor | WSWS Yesterday’s meeting of the “Contact Group on Libya” concluded with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcing that Washington will soon “tap some portion” of the $30 billion in Libyan assets it has confiscated to assist the military intervention. The brazen illegality of the Obama administration’s moves to use Libya’s national wealth to keep the so-called rebel leadership afloat again demonstrates the colonial character of the US-NATO war to oust Muammar Gaddafi... [The standard mafia response is "whaddaya gonna do about it?"] Read more...Americans Are Living In 1984, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...For most Americans the story began and ended with four words: “we got bin Laden.” The celebrations, the sweet taste of revenge, of triumph and victory over “the most dangerous man on the planet” are akin to the thrill experienced by sports fans when their football team defeats the unspeakable rival or their baseball team wins the World Series. No fan wants to hear the next day that it is not so, that it is all a mistake. If these Americans years from now come across a story that the killing of bin Laden was an orchestrated news event to boost other agendas, they will dismiss the report as the ravings of a pinko-liberal-commie... Read more... Gasbag Hillary Blasts China on "Human Rights," by Mike Whitney | Information Clearing House Is there anything more irritating than listening to US officials blabber about "human rights"? I mean, really, doesn't it drive you crazy? Here's Hillary Clinton bashing China for their "deplorable" human rights record, and meanwhile Bradley Manning sits naked and freezing in a 6' by 8' cinderblock cell in some far-flung American gulag waiting to get fingernails yanked out. Can you see the hypocrisy? And that's just for starters. What about Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and the myriad other dungeons, concentration camps and black sites the US has scattered across the planet. Seriously, the United States is the biggest human rights abuser in the world today. No one else even comes close... Read more... The Fog of War and the Murder of Osama Bin Laden - the inevitable war against Pakistan, by Irfan Salah Butt | Information Clearing House ...You can fool most of the American people most of the time but you cannot fool the rest of the world all the time. America lost the moral high ground years ago: Extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Waterboarding, Drone attacks, Aafia Siddiqui, Blackwater, Raymond Davis – the list is endless. Most people outside of the West do not trust the US administration and they have every right not to. American lies and cover ups have become the norm in the War on Terror which Muslims around the world feel is a war on Islam where lawlessness and anarchy reign supreme and where a blood-thirsty American people will accept anything the US administration does on its behalf... Read more... Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig News personalities, politicians, self-appointed experts on the Muslim world, and law enforcement and intelligence officials, as well as the Christian right, have successfully demonized Muslims in the United States since the attacks of 2001. It is acceptable to say things openly about Muslims that could never be said about any other ethnic group... Read more... American Hellholes | The Economic Collapse The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression... Read more... Operation Phantasmagoria I: Israel's New Shadow War On Palestine | Mask of Zion ...To the majority of the world’s population, the Palestinian Nakba is a myth, as are all of the subsequent massacres that followed, the genocides in Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008-09) never happened, Zionist involvement in the destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya is a baseless, conspiratorial amalgam of gobbledegook, the occupations of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria are justified, Israel’s false flag operations are nothing but anti-Semitic delusions and any questioning of the historical events taking place before, during or after World War II, the “Holocaust” in particular, is a hate crime and the questioner should be subject to imprisonment... [The operating principle is that the goyim are stupid. They may have something there.] Read more...The Wanted 18 | YouTube Long Trailer for the Palestinian Animated Documentary film "The Wanted 18". The most powerful army in the middle east in pursuit of 18 cows. Watch video... 'Unprovoked' Attacks, From 1812 to 9/11, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar The killing of Osama bin Laden reminds us that there are only two disciplines in which uncaused events occur—quantum physics and the history of U.S. foreign policy. According to the version of history expounded by the American media and politicians, the passenger aircraft hitting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11 were a diabolical surprise attack out of the blue by the evil bin Laden against unsuspecting and naïve Americans. Of course, Americans were naïve, but principally about their government’s political and military interventions in Muslim countries since World War II, and especially since 1980... Read more... Keiser Report: Cocaine Makes World Go Round | YouTube This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the Class A backing both the Triple A rated and the A listed. In the second half of the show, Max talks to James Howard Kunstler about entropy made visible and a return to the medieval... Watch video... Inside Story: Bahrain - the black hole of Arab uprisings? | Al Jazeera Watch video... Israel and the Sabotage of the Palestinian Agreement, by Saleh Al Nu'ami | Middle East Monitor The Israeli response to the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah has been hysterical. Senior Israeli officials have abandoned the most basic requirements of decorum, issuing coarse threats to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.. Netanyahu has imposed a choice on Abbas between reconciliation with Hamas and the continuation of relations with Israel. Meanwhile, his foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has shamelessly threatened to imprison Abbas in the West Bank and deny him permission to leave it... Read more... BDS Victory: German Company Pulls Out of Illegal Israeli Railway Project, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | Electronic Intifada In a substantial victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a major German rail transportation company — Deutsche Bahn, or DB — has pulled out of the $550 million illegal A1 train project, which is designed to connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem... Read more... David Frum and the Winds of War, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...does this born again “moderate” Republican really want to start a war – bound to go nuclear – with Pakistan? He just can’t understand why the Obama administration doesn’t do its duty and risk turning Central Asia into a radioactive wasteland:.. Read more... Escaping Zion: Matrix, WWII and Now | Roy Tov ...There are three levels to the Israeli emergency plans. I do not mean the military ones. “Metzuda” and “Sde Kotzim” are little more than low-quality scholar papers written by officers seeking a higher rank. I mean the real plans: how to save the upper-echelon Zionist hides by escaping Zion when the day comes... ["Hey, sinner man, where you gonna run to, all on that day?" It'll have to be Alpha Centauri, because when push comes to shove no place on this planet will harbor Jews (it's unlikely that a newly awakened humanity will bother to make the distinction between Jews and Zionists).] Read more...Those Libyan "Freedom Fighters": The Fix Is In, by Kevin Carson | Antiwar ...So the head of the opposition movement is on the CIA payroll, and the first order of business of the insurgent regime is to create a central bank that takes orders from international finance capital. Doesn’t look real good for “freedom” in Libya, does it? Looks pretty damn good for the banksters, though... Read more... Israel bucks pro-democracy trend and promotes repression | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon argues that as Arabs across the region struggle for more openness and democracy, Israeli law seems to be headed in the opposite direction, whereby many Israelis are not only acquiescent, but have also been supportive of parliament members who are drafting new legislation to silence public criticism and to delegitimize political rivals, human rights organizations and the Palestinian minority... Read more... May 12, 2011 An independent homeland or bantustan in disguise? by Haidar Eid | The Electronic Intifada  What this intended “declaration of independence” offers the Palestinian people is merely a mirage The induced euphoria that characterizes discussions within the mainstream media around the upcoming declaration of an independent Palestinian state in September, ignores the stark realities on the ground and the warnings of critical commentators...Read more... Commemorating Palestine's Nakba | Stephen Lendman ...they hang onto life by a thread, while Israel's military juggernaut systematically reigns terror against them, no one intervening to help. "Is this the Zionist goal for which hundreds of thousands have died," Said asked? Isn't it time for justice advocates to demand for Palestinians what Jews spent decades to achieve?".. Read more... Sarkozy and many faces of racism | Rehmat's World In 2005, Nicolas Sarkozy, the Crypto-Jew (born to a Jewish mother) French interior minister blamed Muslims for the riots in the suburbs of Grenoble near Paris. The ever ambitious Sarkozy used the occasion to elevate his national standing among France’s far right. Sarkozy, a typical Zionist Islamophobe politician – is well-known for playing the race card, fear mongering and dirty politics... Read more... Academic Freedom Under Attack?: Interview with Prof. Neve Gordon by Dahlia Scheindlin | 972 It has been a troubled year for Israeli academia. The rising nationalist sentiment in the government, legislature and civil society has spilled over into bitter struggles on campuses throughout the country. Nationalist groups such as IsraCampus, Israel Academia Monitor, and the ultra-nationalist Im Tirtzu have set their crosshairs on academia, seeking the dismissal of faculty members and control over curricula, and urging foreign donors to withdraw funds unless the faculty they have targeted are removed... Read more... Bin Laden and the Palestinians, by Ghada Karmi | The Electronic Intifada Pondering Osama Bin Laden’s killing on 1 May, I found myself linking that event to another that took place 63 years ago in Palestine. It was not that Palestinians ever supported Bin Laden significantly, although some of his messages resonated with them. For example, in October 2010, he wrote to French citizens, “How is it right for you to occupy our countries and kill our women and children and expect to live in peace and security?”.. Read more... Victory: Bank Returns Abudayyeh Family Money, Government Involvement Alleged | USPCN ...In a strange turn of events, the bank admitted today that they shut down the accounts, stating they no longer want to provide banking services to the Abudayyeh family. Simultaneously, TCF management informed the Abudayyehs today that they were issuing them a check for the value of their accounts... [The ZioNazis don't miss a trick, but sometimes they overreach.] Read more...Fascism in the Gulf: Bahrain and the Israeli connection | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the roots of the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, and argues that the double standards embodied in the US response to the Bahraini regime’s violent suppression of the peaceful protests can be directly linked not only to the desire to control the Gulf’s oil supplies, but also to the fact that the Bahraini ruler is a self-proclaimed ally of Israel... Read more... East Jerusalem Palestinians: Lawlessly Revoking Their Status | Stephen Lendman On April 7, 2011, HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a petition, demanding that Israel's Interior Ministry stop revoking residency permits given East Jerusalem Palestinians... Read more... May 11, 2011 Breaking the Gaza Embargo and Israeli Piracy, by Huwaida Arraf, Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Schivone | Intifada Palestine  A year ago this month, Israel shocked the world when it attacked a humanitarian convoy on its way to Gaza in international waters, killing 9 civilians, injuring dozens more, and kidnapping hundreds. Today — as Hamas and Fatah negotiate internal unity and Egypt moves to permanently open Gaza’s southern border, consequences of the Arab Spring — the international solidarity movement musters an even greater flotilla of ships to challenge Israel’s illegal actions against the Palestinians... Read more... Why democracy is failing America, by Mike Adams | Natural News ...Democracy is failing America, and we can't just blame it on the politicians and the corporations. People actually vote for their own self-destruction by electing professional liars to represent them... Read more... What you don't know about the Bilderberg Group, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network The idea that the Bilderberg Group is behind the creation of a mysterious future World Government has been spreading for years. Having had access to the archives of this very secret club, Thierry Meyssan shows that this belief leads in a false direction, serving to mask the true identity and function of the Group. In reality, the Bilderberg Group is a creation of NATO... Read more... Schrödinger's International Terrorist Cat: A Philosophical View of Bin Laden's Death, by Colin Liddell | The Occidental Observer In 1935, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger conceived a famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s Cat to express a paradox that exists between unverified states in quantum mechanics. The basic idea Schrödinger wished to ridicule was that with two unobserved possibilities – in this case a cat in a box that was either dead or alive – both exist until the box is opened... Read more... The Farce Goes On: Bush as Shakespeare | Roy Tov ...Listen to your narrative. “The whole world is against us,” you repeat day and night. Did you ever stop – for just a minute – to ponder if those allegations are the result of your unstoppable violence? Rabin called you the “indefatigable conspirators,” and paid for that with his life... Read more... Is Pakistan Being Cast as the Next Plausible Evil Doer? by Jeff Gates | Veterans Today ..The killing or capture of Osama bin Laden was a strategic imperative of the Obama presidency. His death on Pakistani soil now presents a challenge to the strategic depth required for security and stability in the region. How, under these circumstances, does the U.S. collaborate with a nation given $20 billion since 911?.. Read more... May 10, 2011 Reflections on the official announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network  To announce the official death of Osama Bil Laden, "Time" reverted to the The official announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death gives rise to all sorts of debates, which focus attention on the details of the story to better mask Washington’s strategic designs... same concept depicted on its cover announcing the death of Adolf Hitler Read more... This is the Freedom Ride of this era | USTOGAZA ...In an interview with organizers from The U.S. Boat to Gaza, Alice Walker, one of our nation’s foremost contemporary writers and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, likened the planned Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza to the Freedom Rides by saying ”this is the Freedom Ride of this era.” In the U.S. the racist system of segregation was challenged; in South Africa the racist system of apartheid was challenged; in Palestine the racist system of occupation and apartheid, enforced by the Israeli government and supported by the U.S government, is being challenged and will come to an end... Read more, watch video... Fueling Hatred and Revenge: The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden, by Fidel Castro | Counterpunch ...Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people. Such behavior, which has been maintained for more than half a century, gives us the right to express our views about such a sensitive matter... Read more... Third Intifada Underway: Rallies To Kick Israel's Ambassador Out of Egypt, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine ...After 62 years of struggle and international political deception the Palestinians have winded up living like prisoners in ghetto-like slums besieged by a ruthless blockade on Gaza and by a historically outdated wall barrier encircling the few Palestinian villages left in the west bank. This is the deplorable status quo of the Palestinians; this is the sad story of a people living in exile in their homeland... Read more... Humanitarian Neo-colonialism: Framing Libya and Reframing War, by F. William Engdahl | Global Research The most remarkable facet of NATO's war against Libya is the fact that "world opinion," that ever so nebulous thing, has accepted an act of overt military aggression against a sovereign country guilty of no violation of the UN Charter in an act of de facto neo-colonialism, a 'humanitarian' war in violation of basic precepts of the laws of nations. The world has accepted it without realizing the implications if the war against Gaddafi’s Libya is allowed to succeed in forced regime change. At issue is not whether or not Gaddafi is good or evil. At issue is the very concept of the civilized law of nations and of just or unjust wars... Read more... 'Zionism, Jewishness and Israel', Is Now Online | Gilad Atzmon In spite of the pathetic attempts by Zionists and their Jewish ‘anti Zionist’ allies to crash the event, the panel was a great success. The room was packed. We explored some of the most complicated issues to do with current world affairs. Some of London Jewish activists broke away from their segregated 'Jews only cells' and marched with us... [Fascinating discussion, a must watch] Read more, watch video... New Bin Laden Tapes Appear Fake Like Earlier Ones | Stephen Lendman On May 2, AP writer Matt Apuzzo headlined, "US Official: New bin Laden tape, recorded shortly before death, expected to surface soon," saying:.. Read more... Libyan majority won't join 'NATO revolt': Interview with Sukant Chandan | PressTV The Libyan revolution has not spread further than the eastern provinces and cannot survive without NATO's attacks, thus some say it is not a revolution... Read more... Levy: Israel is more insecure than ever | Rehmat's World ...One crucial point which Levy keeps avoiding is why Israel being the only nuclear power in the Middle East and reicipant of US$3 billion annual military aid – is so insecure? The main reason for Israel’s insecurity is being an artificial entity created for the foreign Jews who don’t share racial, social, political, cultural and religious background with the indigenous population... [Wait until they read the writing on the wall; then they will know what real insecurity is.] Read more...Egypt and the US: Post Hosni Era, by Prof Lawrence Davidson | Opinion Maker Last week I was in Egypt, a country presently moved by optimism. The optimism reflects a high state of political consciousness. Almost everyone I met, be they workers (urban and rural), students, shopkeepers, and the ubiquitous taxi drivers know why their country is beset by problems... Read more... 'Lid about to blow off Syria': Interview with Eric Margolis | Russia Today on YouTube The US is threatening to take new steps against the Syrian government in response to the latest bloody crackdown by security forces... Read more, watch video... Gunfight at Abbottabad: Dismantling the Myth of an American Hero, by Pratap Chatterjee | Antiwar In Hollywood Westerns, the sheriff engages in a shootout with bad guys and wins. Such was the story of Wyatt Earp, who killed rustlers in the "Gunfight at OK Corral." Then there is the American cowboy, represented by John Wayne — tall, handsome, Anglo-Saxon — who rides into town whistling before he dispatches the "bad guys".. Read more... The Defeat of the United States by Al Qaeda, by Kevin Carson | C4SS Since the announced killing of Emanuel Goldstein — er, Osama Bin Laden — I’ve seen much speculation on what kind of big terror attack we can expect in retaliation. But if Al Qaeda was capable of a large-scale, spectacular reprisal attack, I think they’d already have done it between 9-11 and now. Their actual pattern since then has been one of poorly organized, penny ante attacks, carried out by poorly trained people — suggesting that they picked the low-hanging fruit on 9-11... Read more... Pakistan: The Treason of the Rulers, by Mahboob A. Khawaja | Opinion Maker The unfolding of Osama bin Laden killing plan exposes a much hated and embittered sadistic and insane gang of Pakistani rulers at the helm of decision making... Read more... Syria and US Imperialism, by Sara Flounders | Global Research When U.S. imperialism engages in an attack on any government or movement, it is essential that the workers’ and progressive political movements for change gather as much information as is available and take a stand. It is cowardly to be neutral and rank betrayal to stand on the same side as the imperialist octopus, which seeks to dominate the world... [You don't have to be a Marxist, a socialist, or anything like that - just being an informed, aware and compassionate human being works just fine.] Read more...May 8-9, 2011 Rowan Williams in row over Osama bin Laden killing | The Telegraph  Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams conducting wedding service at Westminster Abbey ...Killing bin Laden when he was not carrying a weapon meant that justice could not be “seen to be done”, the Archbishop suggested... Read more... Egyptians hold massive anti-Israeli rally | PressTV Thousands of Egyptian protesters have gathered outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, calling for an end to Cairo's relations with Tel Aviv... Read more... 'US can't accept it created Bin Laden & Al Qaeda' | Russia Today on YouTube The U.S. says the operation against Bin Laden was a 'kill-or-capture mission'. But journalist Afshin Rattansi says taking him alive would have opened a floodgate to a past, the U.S. would rather keep shut... Read more, watch video... Exposing Democracy Promotion In The Middle East, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine Middle East analyst and investigative journalist Maidhc Ó Cathail exposes the Israel partisans, embedded in US governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, that have been involved behind the scenes in encouraging “democratic” reform in the Middle East... Watch video (comprehensive. incisive..a must watch)... 'Libya & Syria steps in West's way to challenge China' | Russia Today on YouTube NATO's bombing campaign in Libya has lasted for nearly two months now, but has failed to break the stalemate of the civil war. Geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya thinks the coalition has a vested interest in making the conflict last... Watch video... President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden | Infowars In this spoof video, President Obama raps his statements about the purported raid on the compound in Pakistan. It may serve as an example of the kind of staging and acting that takes place in Washington... Watch video... Barak: 'Iran will never nuke Israel' | Rehmat's World In a recent interview with Israeli English daily Ha’aretz (reported on May 5, 2011), Israeli Defense Minister and former Israeli Chief of General Staff and Prime Minister, Gen. Ehud Barak, finally admitted the truth which most of the non-Zionists already knew. When asked if Tehran has nuclear bomb, would it drop it on Israel? Barak replied: “Not on us and not on any other neighbor.”.. Read more... The NWO's Ultimate Bogeyman, by Victor Thorn | American Free Press Before anyone buys into the premise that Osama bin Laden’s death was faked for political purposes, they first must accept the premise that 9-11 was a staged false-flag terror attack executed by elements within the Israeli government and U.S. neo-cons. The 19 Muslim“hijackers” and al Qaeda served as nothing more than convenient patsies, with bin Laden becoming the ultimate bogeyman... Read more... It's Not About Usamah, It's About Us | Mantiq al-Tayr  Read more... Palestine: Occupation in Comics | Rehmat's World Malta-born American journalist-cartoonist-author, Joe Sacco, after visiting the Occupied Palestine during 1991-92 – began expressing his personal impression of the lives of the Native Palestinians under foreign Jewish occupation through comics... Read more... Israel's Separation Wall: the death of Palestinian statehood, by Kathleen Christison | Middle East Monitor Walls are the very embodiment, the essential symbol, of separateness and apartheid, and in Palestine, the Separation Wall gives a literal, concrete form to the Jewish exclusivism and separation represented by Israel's governing political philosophy of Zionism. As such, the Separation Wall represents an end to any possibility of independent statehood for Palestinians in any part of their native land... Read more... The Role of Jews in the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, by Henry Herskovitz | Counterpunch After Malcolm X returned from his epiphanic trip to Mecca, he was asked if White people could join his Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was very clear in his response:.. Read more... My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death, by Noam Chomsky | Guernica ...The imperial mentality is so profound, throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are glorifying bin Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal invaders... Read more... U.S. Support for Brutal Dictators is a Source of Frustration in the Middle East: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Anthony DiMaggio | Intifada Palestine Neoliberalism has had disastrous consequences for the masses. Mandated by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and embraced by Mubarak, neoliberalization included the mass privatization of formerly public assets and services, in addition to mass layoffs in an effort to increase profitability in newly privatized companies, strong wage controls which amounted to pay cuts for workers in light of inflation, and a wholesale assault on basic food subsidies, cash transfers, and other government subsidies that were once the norm... Read more... Return to Palestine | Never Before Campaign on YouTube  On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis' ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society - the Nakba - was met with global indifference. Many factors made it so, but among them was a Zionist propaganda machine that illustrated the crime committed in Palestine in 1948 as a war of independence against aggressive Arabs and Palestinians... Read more, watch video... Identity without Supremacy, by June Terpstra | Gilad Atzmon ...The Israelis, Americans and British stop at nothing and do everything to gain and maintain their supremacy. The committing of such heinous crimes against other human beings requires the blocking of the heart of the human connection between the two groups. By disconnecting one’s self from the reality of the crime, the imposing group is able to carry out their atrocities while naming any indigenous resistance that does not benefit them, terrorism... Read more... Changing Osama stories 'bizarre': Interview with Prof. Tariq Ramadan | YouTube Professor Ramadan of Oxford University says the US killing of Osama bin Laden is being perceived in the Muslim world as a PR exercise... Watch video... 'Obama hostage of Wall St. terrorists': Interview with Max Keiser | PressTV Certain individuals on Wall Street have the power to "crash the stock market" if US President Barack Obama does not agree with their demands, an analyst says... Read more... External factors in Hamas-Fatah deal, by Hassan Hanizadeh | PressTV The recent deal between Fatah and Hamas in the Egyptian capital, Cairo was the combination of extrinsic and intrinsic factors, which brought the two Palestinian factions close to each other... Read more... 'Egypt revolution hope for Palestine': Interview with Dr. Ghada Karmi | PressTV Egypt's revolution has encouraged Palestinians, building their hopes up hope for establishing a Palestinian state or unification... Read transcript, watch video... False Flags: An American Tradition | Stephen Lendman ...Past US false flags provided pretexts for militarism, wars, occupations, domestic repression, and national security state extremism, antithetical to democratically free and open societies. Allegedly removing America's "Enemy Number One," in fact, may intensify, not diminish, Washington's scheme for unchallengeable global dominance... Read more... Osama Bin Laden: The Movie | Orwell Was Right  Read more, watch videos... Torture Nation: Enhancing the Move Toward Totalitarianism, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet Now that the government claims it offed Osama bin Laden – never mind a complete lack of evidence – it is time to elevate the brutal and medieval techniques the government said it used to break the case. Darth Vader, aka Mr. Darkside Dick Cheney, former Justice Department official John Yoo – who said it is legal and permissible to crush the testicles of little boys to extract information – and Congress critter anti-jihad crusader Peter King from New York all said this week that “enhanced interrogation,” otherwise known as torture, is a vital element in the war against manufactured enemies... Read more... Behind the attack on Libya are strategies of economic warfare, by Manlio Dinucci | Voltaire Network ...Despite what is being reported, the invasion of Libya has already begun. Units operating on Libyan territory for a long time have prepared the war and are carrying out the assault: they are the powerful oil companies and U.S. and European investment banks... Read more... Egypt and the US: considering the what and the why of things | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that the USA is unlikely to learn the lessons of its failures in the Middle East because, as long at its focus is on “what” is happening rather than “why” it is happening, and as long as the policy parameters are defined by special interest groups rather than the national interest, it will keep on committing the same mistakes... Read more... Barak Hits Dagan: Fueling WMD | Roy Tov ...Since forever, two fools hitting each other ineffectively has been at the core of comedy. The variations are endless. Invariably, actors and public as one know everything is a farce; yet almost everybody laughs and applauds. This also can function as a weapon of mass distraction, if used wisely. Today – May 8, 2011 – we saw the Israeli version... Read more... O'Keefe and survivors of Cast Lead "massacre" join forces in safe-trade project to rebuild Gaza | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood describes how Palestinian rights activist Ken O’Keefe and survivors of Gaza’s Samouni family, may of whom were murdered by Israeli troops in 2008-09, have pooled their efforts to launch a project designed to promote self-reliance among Gazans through trade... Read more... May 7, 2011  A One-to-Two-State Solution, by Robert Wright | NYT Physicians Urge Obama Admin to Pressure Mideast Ally Bahrain to End Repression of Doctors, Patients | Democracy Now...A truly peaceful movement with such elemental aspirations — think of Martin Luther King or Gandhi — would gain immediate international support. In Europe and the United States, leftists would agitate in growing numbers for economic and political pressure on Israel... [A little sanity is always welcome, but the continued existence of the Jews-only state of any size or shape, finally legitimized, would be an unmitigated disaster for the entire world.] Read more... The Gulf nation of Bahrain has announced that 47 medical workers who treated pro-democracy protesters during the nation’s popular uprising will be tried before a military court on charges of acting against the state. Some could face the death penalty for providing medical assistance to protesters... Read transcript, watch video... U.S. and NATO allies initiate Libyan scenario for Syria, by Rick Rozoff | Voltaire Network ...Libya and Syria are the only two Mediterranean nations and the sole remaining Arab states that are not subordinated to U.S. and NATO designs for control of the Mediterranean Sea Basin and the Middle East... [Not coincidentally, they are also two of the seven remaining countries in the world not subordinated to the Imperial banking system. All of those countries, like Libya, are targeted for "humanitarian" interventions.] Read more, watch video...The Assassination of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse, by James Petras | Palestine Chronicle ...Contrary to this immense propaganda campaign and despite whatever symbolic value the killing may have in the eyes of his executioners, there is no evidence that the death will have any impact on the deteriorating military and political position of the US in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa or elsewhere... Read more... Anger as playwright is denied award over his views on Israel | The Independent A New York university has withdrawn its offer of an honorary degree to the award-winning playwright Tony Kushner after a row over his views on Israel descended into accusations of slander... Read more... 'Jewishness', Scare Tactics, and a Sense of Humour, by Lauren Booth | Palestine Chronicle Cloak and dagger antics outside a campus in central London, Tuesday night, as the University of Westminster, caved into threats of disturbance, from UK based Zionists. Why? Because, Gilad Atzmon, world renowned saxophonist, author and anti Zionist racconteur had put together a panel to debate the following; ‘Jewishness and Israeli criminality.’.. Read more... Canada Turns Hard Right, to Israel's Benefit, by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle On May 02, 2011, Canadian electors voted in a majority government for the former minority government of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party. The Conservatives won 167 out of 308 possible seats, although statistically, because of Canada’s “first past the post” system of electing representatives, they did not receive a majority of the “popular” vote. With a voter turnout of 61 per cent, and the popular vote of 40 per cent for the Conservatives, only 24 per cent of Canadians elected the new government... Read more... Staged Bin Laden Killing Hokum | Stephen Lendman As reported, it sounded more like bad fiction than eliminating "Enemy Number One," especially with no visuals, corpse, independent proof, and shifting official accounts. In Hollywood, it's called rewrite. In politics, it's lying, a Washington bipartisan specialty, notably on issues mattering most... Read more... Feds Issue Terror Advisory Based on Info Allegedly Found at Osama's House, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...the government is exploiting the Osama death fantasy as an excuse to expand the police state grid in the United States and acclimate the populace to the presence of militarized cops and unconstitutional random searches in mass transit hubs... Read more... War is a Sticky Business, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...If the United States of America survives another fifty years and historians begin to chart the decline of the Great Republic, they will undoubtedly reach the conclusion that post-9/11 Washington found it very easy to use continuous conflict as a substitute for any real foreign policy while also finding it extremely difficult to exit from what it had begun. Empires frequently exhibit such a failure of imagination, thinking themselves invincible... Read more... Egypt and Israel heading for crisis | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that post-Mubarak Egypt’s reassessment of its policies towards Israel and the Palestinians is plunging the Zionist state into a mood of deep depression and anxiety... Read more... May 6, 2011 Obit: Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), by Eric Walberg | The International  Osama bin Laden was born 10 March 1957 in Riyad to Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Yemeni-born Saudi construction billionaire with close ties to the Saudi royal family, and was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan 2 May 2011 in a CIA-directed targeted assassination... Read more... Human rights groups petition High Court to overthrow 'Nakba Law' | Haaretz The Nakba Law bars public funding of entities that 'undermine the foundations of the state', and will allow the finance minister to fine anyone who marks Israeli Independence Day as a day of mourning... Read more... Chance For Humanity, by Shabana Syed | Gilad Atzmon ...In a world where one can't mention the 'J' word without being labeled anti Semitic Gilad not only mentions the J word and Zionism but also attempts to highlight what is the driving force that fuels the criminal barbaric policies of the state of Israel... Read more... Cross and Double Cross With Gitmo Files: US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch The unredacted Guantanamo files show clearly that the trail to Abbottabad was known to the US intelligence services at least since 2005, when al-Libi, another Abbottabad dweller, was captured... Read more... Boycott Bibi! | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation House Speaker John Boehner has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress this month in conjunction with the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... Read more... Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch Israeli officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in relations with Cairo... Read more... Fallujah, Iraq 2004 - Misrata, Libya 2011 | Media Lens In November 2004, the UN's Integrated Regional Information Network reported the impact of Operation Phantom Fury, a combined US-UK offensive, on Iraq’s third city, Fallujah:.. Read more... Gaddafi family members murdered by US and NATO, by James Cogan | WSWS The killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son and three grandchildren are political murders for which British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and US President Barack Obama are directly responsible... Read more... Syria: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention", by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...Since the Soviet-Afghan war, Western intelligence agencies as well as Israel's Mossad have consistently used various Islamic terrorist organizations as "intelligence assets". Both Washington and its indefectible British ally have provided covert support to "Islamic terrorists" in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya, etc. as a means to triggering ethnic strife, sectarian violence and political instability. The staged protest movement in Syria is modeled on Libya. The insurrection in Eastern Libya is integrated by the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which is supported by MI6 and the CIA. The ultimate objective of the Syria protest movement, through media lies and fabrications, is to create divisions within Syrian society as well as justify an eventual "humanitarian intervention"... Read more... Bachmann: America 'cursed' by God 'if we reject Israel' | Minnesota Independent At a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Los Angeles last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support, America will cease to exist... [This sick twit is a Congresswoman? Ah well, maybe the "end times" are indeed upon us.] Read more...Question for TIME: Are Assertions of Top Spymaster "Black Helicopter Fantasies"? by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars ...Unfortunately for Sorenson and a whole host of corporate media hacks who have obediently spread their legs and allowed the White House, with no questions asked, to ram the contrived fraud of the Bin Laden fairytale right up where the sun don’t shine, just as they swallowed up the lies about Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, a top U.S. government insider who worked under no less than five different presidents, Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, cannot be dismissed as a “conspiracy monger”... Read more... Osama bin Laden Murder Fable: A Work in Progress, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...It is not the job of the corporate media to question or ask for verification. It is the job of the corporate media to act as a megaphone for official lies like it did when Bush’s Pentagon neocons absurdly insisted Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. As a result of this fantastic and easily refutable lie, a million and a half people so far have died and millions more suffer daily from disease, malnutrition, poverty, and ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq... Read more... AIPAC, a Not-So-Benign Night Flower, by Janet McMahon | Middle East Monitor ...Do Americans want their laws and foreign policies drafted to serve the interests of a foreign government? At the very least, AIPAC's funding sources and expenditures should be available for scrutiny by the citizens of its host country. In the meantime, the upcoming Move Over AIPAC conference, to be held in Washington, DC May 21-24-at the very time AIPAC will be hosting Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his congressional supplicants at its annual Washington policy conference-will shine a critical and much-needed light on the means and ends of the Israel Lobby's flagship organization... Read more... David Petraeus Rides Again, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar ...What else could a distant traveler from another time think, other than the American national security elite circa 2007 to 2011 had fallen into some sort of mass induced swoon—over one man who, for all of his medals, ribbons and stars, did not win a war, but worse, encouraged and manipulated two Presidents of the United States to pour more blood, more treasure into it until everyone was feeling stupid and more than a little resentful about getting involved in the first place... Read more... War by Deception Extra, by Ryan Dawson | YouTube The defense industry makes money off of ANY conflict so why Iraq. Because they were a threat to Israel. We could have bought the oil for FAR less than what it cost to steal it. Big oil did not create ANY of the lies that lead to war, and yet PNAC wrote ALL of them. This was a war for and by Israel. Even the invasion priority #1 was to take out the Western portion of Iraq, the only place within range of hitting Israel... Read more... May 5, 2011 Mahmoud Abbas and his "Magic Kingdom" by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Intifada Palestine  It seems Mahmoud Abbas is perpetuating the same lies, the same fraud his predecessor did for over 30 years as the leader of the PLO and Fatah... Read more... WHEN I RETURN: A collective celebration of hope and promise | US Palestinian Community Network We are pleased to invite you to participate in When I Return, a US Palestinian Community Network initiative aiming to highlight community and collective aspirations for the freedom and liberation of Palestine... Read more... Al Khalifa buoyed by US support | PressTV Press TV interviews Saeed al-Shahabi, a Bahraini opposition leader in London who discusses recent events as an extension of the impunity the al-Khalifa regime feels it has because of the US and British direct support... Read transcript, watch video... Media Lies and Misinformation on Bin Laden | Stephen Lendman Corporate media manipulators love a big story they can hype, distort and falsify to attract large audiences, unaware they're getting managed news, not truth... Read more... Who Was Osama bin Laden? | Karin Friedemann Whoever the poor soul was, whom the US assassination team “buried at sea,” it most certainly was not Osama bin Laden. Still, now would not be a bad time to lay to rest our questions about the Grandfather of Islamic Internationalism... Read more... 'Israel cannot dictate new Middle East': Interview with Michael Jones | PressTV Press TV has interviewed Michael Jones, the editor of the Culture Wars magazine, in South Bend, Indiana, to discuss the impacts of the latest development and a reopening of Egypt's Rafah border with the Gaza Strip... Read more... US: 'No credible alternative for Assad' | Rehmat's World The pro-Israel western powers are preparing the ground in Syria for another Libya-style invasion. In both countries they’re using Saudi-controlled armed ‘Salafi (Islamist)’ groups to destabilize regimes which have never posed a threat to the West or Israel... Read more... Obama snatches defeat from jaws of victory, by Yvonne Ridley | Opinion Maker As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death filtered out onto the streets of America it triggered unsightly scenes of undiluted hysteria, chest-thumping and back-slapping which has sadly become a trademark of the vengeful ‘hang’em high’ lobby that emerged from the rubble of 9/11... Read more... Osama bin-Dead awhile is dead - just like I said he'd be, by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs We may very well find our government putting closure to this whole Osama bin Laden affair in the very near future. I expect them to come up with a body. Maybe they’ll dig him up out of the hills of Afghanistan, or claim that he was recently blown to bits following a bloody fire fight in Yemen. Whatever happens, you can be sure that our government will declare, “Mission Accomplished” and finally have something to show for all those billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives it cost to get him. [written in December, 2010]... Read more... Osama bin Laden's Useful Death, by Paul Craig Roberts | Infowars In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago (emphasis added) from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday.”.. Read more, watch video... Arab Dissidents' Strange Bedfellows, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine If it’s true that, as Shakespeare famously put it, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” then pro-democracy Arab dissidents must be very miserable indeed... Read more... 'Bahrain doctors' trial sub-human act' | PressTV A number of Bahraini doctors are scheduled to stand trial in a military court for treating anti-government protesters, despite international pressure on Bahrain to stop the violent crackdown on the demonstrators... Read more... On the Second Death of Osama bin Laden | Kawther Salam According to historians, during the last year of the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, General Horemhab went on an expedition against the Hittites to far away Syria. The Egyptian army was defeated, putting General Horemhab in an awkward position and his head in peril. The general solved the problem by sending emissaries back to Egypt proclaiming his victory. When he arrived back home with the remains of his army, they were celebrated as heroes. When the truth about the defeat eventually arrived in Egypt, the Pharaoh had died and the political situation changed, and the truth about the defeat became inconsequential and Horemhab later became Pharaoh of Egypt... Read more... 'US, NATO reduce diplomacy to wars' | PressTV In an interview with Press TV, Conn Hallinan from Foreign Policy in Focus elaborates on the US and NATO policy of 'shoot first, then negotiate' as wars are waged all across the Middle East, focusing on Libya and the recent assassination of Osama bin Laden... Read transcript, watch video... Holocaust, OBL and the dancing Israelis | Rehmat's World The 2011 Holocaust Remembrance Day brought the unexpected “Good News” for the Israeli leaders to dance as they did on 9/11. However, this time the avenue was not New York but in Abbotabad (Pakistan) where, Osama Bin Laden was killed by Ben-Obama’s boys and hurriedly “buried at sea,”.. Read more... The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack, by James Petras | Clarity Press The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back... Read more... May 4, 2011 Fatah-Hamas pact and the third Intifada, by Hassan Hanizadeh | PressTV  Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh speaks with Acting The preliminary agreement reached by the Hamas and Fatah movements for solving their disputes and forming a unity government has angered Israel... The Palestinian leaders have declared May 15 the day for the beginning of the Palestinians' third Intifada, and this proposal has been approved by the entire political spectrum of Palestine. On this day, all Palestinians, both inside and outside of the occupied territories, are expected to rise up against the Zionist regime... Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas Read more... Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden's Death | Truthdig ...I despair that we as a country, as Nietzsche understood, have become the monster that we are attempting to fight... AIPAC does not speak for me, by Hedy Epstein | The Electronic Intifada In 2004, the end of one of my first journeys to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, I endured a shocking experience at Ben-Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. I never imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but they held me for five hours and strip-searched and cavity-searched every part of my naked body. The only shame these security officials expressed was to turn their badges around so that their names were invisible... Read more... WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg | Russia Today interviews Julian Assange The man behind WikiLeaks says his website's revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known... Read more, watch video... Fatah and Hamas: Reconciliation or Escape Forward, by Sami Jadallah | Intifada Palestine With both organizations having lost their sponsors and afraid its leadership may face the same fate as Hosni Mubarak and Bashar Assad, they pre-empted it with a quick announcement of “reconciliation.” Saving their skin is no doubt one key factor that is behind this quick agreement... Read more... Communiqué by Elias Davidsson on Osama bin Laden's murder | William Bowles According to mass media, Osama bin Laden was murdered yesterday, on May 1st, 2011. He was murdered with “other family members”, whose identity is still unknown. The President of the United States of America took credit for this act of murder. Murder is prohibited in every jurisdiction. It is regarded as a criminal act both under national and international law. President Barack Obama should henceforth be charged for ordering an act of outright murder... Read more... Pakistan becoming hostile to US? | PressTV Claims that Pakistan is attempting to form an alliance with Saudi Arabia over the US after the US has invested billions in aid to Pakistan perfectly coincides with the timing of the death of bin Laden... Read more, watch video... Lies, Damn Lies, and Bin Laden's Death, by Stephen Lendman | The People's Voice Winston Churchill rightly explained that "(a) lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.".. [See also RT interview on YouTube] Read more, watch video...US shows no evidence of bin Laden death: Interview with Jim Brann, spokesman for Stop the War Coalition | PressTV President Obama has declared to the world that Osama bin Laden is dead and celebrates that a US hit team achieved the goal of killing him. Meanwhile, any identifiable evidence has been purposefully destroyed... Read transcript, watch video... 'Bin Laden plans drive US to bankruptcy' | PressTV interviews Mark Dankov Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, whether dead or alive, has succeeded in his promise to drive the United States into bankruptcy, a US politician says... Read more, watch video... May 3, 2011 OBL IS DEAD and the Terror ConMen Rejoice in Chorus of Kumbaya, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today  My professional con-man sociopathetic dad always said, “Son, the bigger the lie the more people will believe it” as if he were preparing me for life as a witness to a George W. Obama Bush CIA Crime... Read more, watch video... Osama bin Laden's Second Death, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans... Read more... Chossudovsky: B-2 bombers & Mirage 2000 fighters guarantee deaths in Libya | YouTube The UN failed to pass a statement condemning violence in Syria. Some nations blocked the move, expressing concern the country could face a Libyan-style scenario... Watch video... Panic in the Houses of Congress and AIPAC? by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar On April 13, 2011, more than a dozen Israel “First, last and always” US congressional leaders from both houses of Congress held an urgent conference call organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... Read more... Lieberman to Be Handed Draft Indictment Imminently | Al Manar Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Israel's prosecution is expected to hand a draft indictment to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's attorneys on charges of fraud, money laundering, and breach of trust... [There is something extremely surrealistic about the world's most criminal state pretending to observe the rule of law] Read more...America's New Middle East Agenda, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay ...the Obama administration threatens the entire region, using "constructive chaos" to create "an arc of instability, chaos, and violence," affecting all Eurasian countries to solidify unchallengeable US control. Moreover, at a time when "Let them eat cake" arrogance trumps growing public needs, America plans more than ever military spending... Read more... Setting the record straight on BDS, by Omar Barghouti | Australians for Palestine ...On 9 July 2005, the Palestinian BDS Call was issued, endorsed by more than 170 of the leading institutions in Palestinian society. It called for holding Israel to account for its three-tiered system of oppression, for its persistent violations of international law to compel it to end its 1967 occupation of all Arab lands, including East Jerusalem; its system of racial discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens which was described in the 2010 US Department of State human rights report as constituting “institutional, legal and societal discrimination”; and respecting the UN-sanctioned right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes of origin, as stipulated in UN Resolution 194... Read more... Slander vs. Sanity | Ken O'Keefe The last week and a half has been increasingly entertaining, albeit in a seriously dangerous way... [Ken O'Keefe is one of the few genuine heroes in our increasingly confused world. It is therefore sad but inevitable that he would become a target of some seriously deranged people who claim to be on the same side of the aisle.] Read more...'Gaddafi evil, not mad, UN sum total of hypocrisy' | RT on YouTube Alan Hart, a British writer and journalist, shared his insight into the ongoing unrest in Syria. He says the country's president, who once touted himself as a reformer, is most likely a prisoner to the will of his security forces... Read more... Arab Spring: Between Bad & Worse | YouTube Russia blocks UN plans to condemn Syria's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters saying there are no grounds for international interference... Read more, watch video... The Accusation Of Anti-Semitism Has Long Passed Its Sell-By Date: Anthony Lawson Interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine Anthony Lawson is an inimitable, conscientious and unique man. What he does can be described as professional and committed video-journalism... Read more... Israel Slams Bombing of Gas Pipeline & Palestinian Reconciliation and Egypt strongly Responds, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today What Mr. Netanyahu is unaware of is the fact that the Arabs currently in revolt, as much as they reject both the Israeli-Egyptian natural gas deal and the Israeli inhuman blockade on Gaza, feel the same way about the Israeli-Palestinian so called peace talks... Read more... Will Goldstone's retraction provoke another Cast Lead? by Jonathan Cook | Le Monde diplomatique Veteran Israeli analyst Uri Avnery, a peace activist, warned: “Goldstone has now paved the way for another Cast Lead operation which will be far worse.” Several Israeli government ministers are already calling for a Cast Lead 2. It seems they may yet get their way... Read more... May 2, 2011 Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored, by Josh Ruebner | The Electronic Intifada  US weaponry was used in the flattening of Gaza Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through this month’s passage of the 2011 budget, but reached the record level of $3 billion...Read more... Hamas and Fatah: Dawn of New Reality for Palestine, by Iqbal Jassat | Palestine Chronicle ...Unity at last between Hamas and Fatah! Shocking says Israel. Unacceptable declares America... Read more... Britain's Royal Wedding: A Big Day For The Global Oligarchy, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research ...what should be appreciated from the display in Britain is the revelation – albeit unintended – of raw state power. Behind the translucent wedding veil, what can be seen is raw state power that blows away any vestige of illusions of parliamentary democracy, illusions that are not just peculiar to Britain, but to all the Western powers. In short, the empire of corporate and financial aristocracy that has emerged in late capitalism is now asserting itself increasingly and more blatantly as a dictatorship of Capital. All political parties, whether Conservative, Liberal or Labour in Britain, or Republican, Democrat in the US etc., are seen to be willing servants of this dictatorship... Read more... US Rethinks Strategy: War as Opportunity in Libya, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle The brutality of Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi, and his refusal to concede power, is costing Libya much more than innocent lives. The country is now also facing a possible loss of future independence and sovereignty. From its early days, the Libyan revolt seemed to take a difference course than those of other Arab countries. It represented a window of opportunity for the United States and its western allies to reposition themselves, slowly but surely, around a conflict that promised grueling and bloodier times ahead... Read more... Time Is Ripe For A Paradigm Shift | Gilad Atzmon It is slightly embarrassing for me to admit that sometimes Zionists are actually well ahead of our favourite intellectuals in understanding the depth of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It is not that they are more clever, they are just free to explore the conflict without being subject to the tyranny of ‘political correctness’, also, being proud nationalist Jews, they do not need the approval of the Jewish left thought police... Read more... No-Fly Zone Over Gaza, video by Anthony Lawson | Vimeo Watch video, sign petition... Cairo Holds Massive Anti-Israel Rally | Palestine Chronicle Thousands of Egyptian protesters have gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in the capital Cairo demanding an end to ties with Israel. The demonstration originated from the nearby Cairo University. The protesters demanded that the Egyptian government abruptly sever all ties with Israel. They called for a freeze on all gas exports to Tel Aviv... Read more... Libya: It's Not About Oil, It's About Currency and Loans, by John Perkins | Information Clearing House ...We listen to U.S. spokespeople try to explain why we’re suddenly now entangled in another Middle East war. Many of us find ourselves questioning the official justifications. We are aware that the true causes of our engagement are rarely discussed in the media or by our government... Read more... If At First You Don't Succeed: Four Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Topple Gadafi, by Richard Lance Keeble | Media Lens Behind a wall of silence, the US and UK have been conducting over the last four decades a massive, largely secret war against Libya – often using Chad, the country lying on its southern border, as its base. The current attacks on Col. Gadafi’s troops and attempts to assassinate the Libyan leader with the US deployment of unmanned drones are best seen as part of a wide-ranging and long-standing strategy by the US/UK secret states to dislodge Gadafi... Read more... Bernard-Henri Lévy, "philosopher" and hypocrite | Redress Information & Analysis Readers following the progress of the Libyan uprising will have noticed that self-proclaimed “philosopher” Bernard-Henri Lévy claims to support the struggle of the Libyan people against the Gaddafi mafia. But, as Gilad Atzmon demonstrates, the Frenchman is in fact a hypocrite and an apologist for Israeli racism and the suppression of Palestinian human rights... Read more... BDS update: Breaking new barriers, by Eric Walberg | The People's Voice The upcoming flotilla to break the Gaza siege is gathering steam from a flood of innovative Boycott, Divest and Sanctions activities around the world... Read more... Hang 'Em High! by Israel Shamir | Intifada Palestine ...They are not the Americans, and “we” are not the rest of the planet. “They” are a small sliver of the American population, the get-rich-quick crowd from the East Side of Manhattan and similar places. The last twenty years witnessed a great shift of money upwards, to a smaller and smaller pack of greedy beasts. While the majority of Americans lost the ability to send their children to universities, these fat cats bought themselves villas in Florida and houses in Tel Aviv. Worse, they spent their billions buying up the media in order to subvert American democracy and send American soldiers to fight wars in far-away places. A big part of the stolen money was siphoned off to Israel, where apartment prices went through the roof and are still rising... Read more... The West and Libya: Selective Vigilantism, by Tariq Ali | Counterpunch The US-Nato intervention in Libya, with United Nations security council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one dictator in particular and by so doing to bring the Arab rebellions to an end by asserting western control, confiscating their impetus and spontaneity and trying to restore the status quo ante... Read more... What's In It for Us, Mr. Obama? by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...That Washington has become a victim of the internal politics of the Middle East is largely due to manipulation by Israel and its lobby, which has turned all Americans into enablers of Israeli policies, no matter how short-sighted or ill-conceived. It is the US national interest that has been sacrificed in the process. That is the point... Read more... Are you British enough to snap your fingers at Israel, Mr Cameron? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood challenges British Prime Minister David Cameron – a Friend of Israel and patron of the racist Jewish National Fund – to live up to the “fearless sense of fairness and justice” that is supposed to be a characteristic of “true Britishness” by discharging Britain’s responsibility to protect the Palestinians from Israeli crimes... Read more... Phony Baloney: Judge Goldstone's Bogus Test of War Time Culpability, by Lynda Burstein Brayer | Counterpunch ...I would contend that the continuing presence of Israel in these occupied territories, its building of settlements and the transfer of a huge Jewish population into it, and an infrastructure built from Palestinian assets to serve those settlements, its control over the use of land and water, and its continuing oppression of the indigenous population, should be classified as a colonialist venture. From the Palestinian point of view, the Israeli policies and practices are formulated and executed for the destruction of Palestinian society, private and public life, and their material assets... [Technically speaking, it is a policy of genocide] Read more...The Ghoul And The Arab Populous Revolt, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine ...Almost all Arab dictators have sprung from self professed revolutions championing the Palestinian cause. Arab dictatorship, the last bastion of dictatorships, brought nothing but international contempt to Arabs, achieved no economic progress, and perpetuated the occupation of Palestine and Arab land. The Arab masses are fed up... Read more... What Are They Afraid Of? | Gilad Atzmon The UK Zionist network, together with half a dozen Sayanim within the Jewish Palestinian solidarity network, seem to be strongly united this week... Read more... The House Of Nasser And His Children Was Bombed, by Vera Macht | Gilad Atzmon Thursday evening I got the call. From Inge, my ISM colleague, who is still in Gaza. "Nasser's house was bombed," she just said. "The paramedics are evacuating the family now. I'll keep you updated.” It took about an hour before I knew that all are alive... Read more... 'Bahrain cruelty swells hatred for West' | PressTV The US and UK silence over the Saudi-backed crackdown on Bahraini protesters have fueled anti-West sentiment in the Arab world... Read transcript, watch video... 'Saudi Arabia revels in Saleh defiance' | PressTV Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has rejected a deal brokered by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council to step down... Read transcript, watch video... Washington Showdown with AIPAC, by Grant Smith | Antiwar ...In 2011, AIPAC is the number one obstacle to those seeking peace in the Middle East. Today the lobby launders with impunity purloined US national defense information — rather than overseas charitable funds — to undermine peace. It has forced concerned Americans of many stripes, liberal to libertarian, foreign policy novices to pros — to rekindle the spirit of the 1960s AZC accountability moment by again gathering in Washington May 21-24 at Move Over AIPAC... Read more... Hope for a new dawn at Rafah in Gaza Strip | Redress Information & Analysis Following the recent announcements of Egypt’s intention to open the Rafah Crossing with Gaza, Richard Lightbown describes some of the hypocrisies behind Israel’s objections and speculates on what might follow... Read more... |
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